Quotes by John Boyle O'reilly - Page 1

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
John Boyle O'reilly / Poet
Brother
Despair
Doubt
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Anonymity is the fame of the future.
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Anonymity
Fame
Social Media
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Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
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Experience
Heed
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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
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Safe
Silence
Silent
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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
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Wisdom
Mankind
Wealth
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Work
Saint Patrick's Day
True
Be True
Friend
Word
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Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
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Men
Giving
Sigh
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
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Rarity
Right Words
Precious
Right Word
Spoken
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I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
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Bohemia
Land
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Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.
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Loyalty
Quality
Heart
Humans
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A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
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Dream
Dreamer
Forever
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Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
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Kindness
Heart
Secret
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
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Ireland And The Irish
Mother
Nurse
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They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
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Flying
Shore
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For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
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Desire
Kissing
Lips
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... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.
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Men
Planets
Rights
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Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
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Friendship
Men
Real Friends
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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
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Charity
Names
Statistics
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When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.
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Honor
Ready
Your Honor
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Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
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Ends
Judging
Praise
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For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.
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Peace
Break
Minutes
Years
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With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
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Armor
Feudalism
Growth
Iron
Advance
Came
Last
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No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
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Burden
Purpose
However
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The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.
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Flower
Passion
White
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The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
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Heart
League
Two
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Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
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Life
Skills
Symphony
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And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
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Law
Rights
Soul
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Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.
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Death
Anchors
Love Is
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Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.
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Etc
Fighting
Guarded
Labor
Ought
Population
Profession
Property
Rights
Voting
Represent
Fully
Roughly
Stated
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It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
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Independence
Aim
Aristocracy
Breathe
Individual Liberty
Liberty
Royalty
Common People
Lower
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In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.
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Cursed
Ireland
Nine
Predict
Arrived
Legislative
Union
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A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
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Blow
Ought
Solidarity
Begin
Arm
Boxer
Foot
Round
Heap
Himself
Instead
Striking
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Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
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Attending
Boxing
Boys
Development
Discipline
Exercise
Fighting
Manly
Remains
Training
Altogether
Aside
Evils
Inestimable
Putting
Value
Unavoidable
Young Men
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With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
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Advent
Aristocracy
Boxing
Chivalry
Evolution
Weapons
Common People
Exercises
Feudal
Widely
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The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.
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Art
Adoption
Boxing
Contests
Exercise
Gloves
Mean
New Life
Boxer
Preserve
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For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
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Humble
Integrity
White
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Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
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Boxing
Free Country
Ought
Weapons
Wrestling
Young Man
Instructed
Rifle
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All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
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Boxing
Endurance
Force
Gloves
Pluck
Precision
Quickness
Readiness
Rough
Rowdy
Satisfied
Seeing
Best Good Value
Contest
Soft
Value
Witnessed
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Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
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Aim
Athletic
Boxing
Dishonesty
Exercise
Fighting
Followers
Football
Judged
Noble
Ought
Footing
Low
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
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Boxers
Exercise
Father
Manhood
Play
Unarmed
Appeared
Distinctions
Earliest
Encounter
Fathers
Greeks
Indicative
Personal
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How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
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Hands
Necks
Twists
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
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Abomination
Femininity
Half
Masculinity
Suffrage
Unjust
Unreasonable
Proposition
Reduce
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The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.
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Abolition
Bones
Boxing
Contestants
Crushed
Disappear
Gloves
Hands
Humanity
Lips
Bare
Call
Utter
Cover
Fight
Interests
Large
Maimed
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Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.
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Quality
Faith
Commonplace
Fine
Morality
Tenderness
Weakness
Men Women World
Faith Men Women
Women Are
Beg
Controls
Degraded
Essential
Faith Women Men
Follow
Guardians
Impaired
Level
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It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
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War
Admiration
Battle
Blood
Country
Daring
Heroic
Liberty
Mankind
Patriot
Sacrifice
Secret
Willing
Time War Power
Aimless
War Time Peace
War Time Power
Condemn
Meet
Prepare
Shedding
Tyrant
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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
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Black
Conceited
Equity
Example
Ignorant
Illustration
Inferiority
Mark
Opinion
Social
Teaching
Unjust
White
Time Change Politics
Skin
Based
Cannot
Change Politics Time
Legislate
Prejudiced
Qualities
Steal
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
John Boyle O'reilly / Poet
Success
Women
Antithesis
Assuming
Burden
Conquest
Highest
Movement
Mystery
Sacrifice
Sex
Submission
Suffrage
Sweetest
Wave
Bear
Would
Injure
Intellectually
Sediment
Spiritually
Themselves
Though
Unable
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