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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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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – 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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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

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

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