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John Boyle O'Reilly


Irish
June 28, 1844
Poet
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.


John Boyle O'Reilly
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.


John Boyle O'Reilly
Tags: Work Your True
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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Tags: His High Free
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have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.
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Tags: Will Which Then
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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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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Tags: Men Young Boy
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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Tags: More Life Than
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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Tags: Time Power War