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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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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

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