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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not i

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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