The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bys

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

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

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

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

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