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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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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann

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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a persons money as his time. – Horace Mann

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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

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