John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

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

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

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

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.