The Echo

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.  - Joseph Addison

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.  - Sophocles




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