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Category Archives: Ireland

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father”. –Austin O’Malley

“For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again”. –Oliver Goldsmith

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul”. –George Bernard Shaw

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