Quote by Mark Twain
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. - Mark Twain

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. – Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain

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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. – Mark Twain

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

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

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

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If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too. – Doug Davidson

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Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all. – John Cumming, “Salvation,” sermon preached before the Queen, 1850 September 22nd

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