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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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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.
Author:
Florence Nightingale
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I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Author:
Osama Laden
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
Author:
Alma Gluck
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Author:
Jim Elliot
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Author:
Benjamin Cardozo
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Author:
Saint Augustine
