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Quote by Horace Mann
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to

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

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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann

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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

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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