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• They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

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  Flying, Shore

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1874). “Songs from the Southern Seas: And Other Poems”, p.190

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• Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

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  Brother, Doubt, Despair

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

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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, Mean, Exercise

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

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• Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

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  Experience, Heed

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

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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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  Football, Exercise, Fighting

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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, Rowdy

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

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  Silence, Safe, Silent

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

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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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  Fighting, Exercise, Boys

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

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• Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

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  Mother, Nurse, Ireland And The Irish

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

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