Quote by Nathaniel Howe
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute livi

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by Gods grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. – Bishop Hugh Latimer

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

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

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

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