John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
• Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
• Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
• Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
• And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a…
• A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
• The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
• I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
• For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press,…
• They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
• The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by…
• Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is…
• It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed…
• The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
• Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not…
• ... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.
• Anonymity is the fame of the future.
• Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
• When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.

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