John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes

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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

John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

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Wisdom, Wealth, Mankind

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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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, Twists, Necks

John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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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

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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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, Real Friends, Men

John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”

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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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Country, War, Sacrifice

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... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

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Men, Rights, Planets

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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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, Love Is, Anchors

John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

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Kissing, Desire, Lips

John Boyle O'Reilly (1907). “Watchwords”

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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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Rights, Law, Soul

John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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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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Integrity, Humble, White

"Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, together with his complete poems and speeches edited by Mrs John Boyle O'Reilly" by James Jeffrey Roche, New York, (p. 195), 1891.

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Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

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Men, Giving, Sigh

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

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Right Words, Rarity

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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, Two, League

John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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Anonymity is the fame of the future.

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Social Media, Fame, Anonymity

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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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Half, Unjust, Abomination

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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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Judging, Praise, Ends

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

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Names, Charity, Statistics

In Bohemia In Bohemia

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Each heart holds the secret:
'Kindness' is the word.

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Kindness, Heart, Secret

John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

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Loyalty, Heart, Quality

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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

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

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Dream, Forever, Dreamer

John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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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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Father, Exercise, Play

John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

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I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

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Land, Bohemia

John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”

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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, Years, Break

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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Born: June 28, 1844
Died: August 10, 1890
Occupation: Poet
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