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.
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.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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.
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.
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.
... He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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