Quote by Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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Fear is the highest fence. – Dudley Nichols

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I never saw a wild thing
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A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
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