"Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but…" — John Boyle O'Reilly
"Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse."
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38 Quotes by John Boyle O'Reilly
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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
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Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
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Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to…
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And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that…
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A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
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I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
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For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence.…
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They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
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How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you…
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged,…
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More Barren Quotes
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one of 190 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
— Tony Blair
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Joseph F. Lamb
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all…
— Mark Twain
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