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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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

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

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

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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