All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Quote by Richard Le Gallienne

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It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.