Top 25 John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes (2024 Update)

John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Be silent and safe – silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”

1. “Be silent and safe – silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; 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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.”

2. “Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

3. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.”

4. “The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.”

5. “They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.”

6. “Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.”

7. “The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

8. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.”

9. “Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.”

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

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Anonymity is the fame of the future.”

11. “Anonymity is the fame of the future.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

12. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

13. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

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

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.”

15. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.”

16. “Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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?”

17. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “I’d rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.”

18. “I’d rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

19. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.”

20. “When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.”

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

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

22. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

23. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

24. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

25. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

26. “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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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “Who heeds not experience, trust him not.”

27. “Who heeds not experience, trust him not.”

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John Boyle O'Reilly Quote: “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.”

28. “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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