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Arnobius tells us that this martyrdom first of all made them seriously inquisitive into that religion which could endue the mind with so much strength and overcome the fear of death. - Joseph Addison God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing. - Joseph Addison And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. - Bible, Acts (ch. VII, v. 59-60) Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven! - Edwin Hubbell Chapin There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith. - Charles Caleb Colton If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same. - Charles Caleb Colton The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. - Charles Caleb Colton It is not the death that makes the martyr, but the cause. - Canon Dale For some not to be martyed is a martyrdom. - Dr. John Donne The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. - Thomas Jefferson It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. - Alphonse de Lamartine It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. - Horace Mann When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. - Hannah More Those who completely sacrifice themselves are praised and admired; that is the sort of character men like to find in others. - Ibn Rahel To die for truth is not to die .for one's country, but to die for the world. Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess. Then, also, thy temple, O eternal Truth! that now stands half below the earth, made hollow by the sepulchres, of its witnesses, will raise itself in the total majesty of its proportions, and will stand in monumental granite; and every pillar on which it rests will be fixed in the grave of a martyr. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history. - Edwin Percy Whipple
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