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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 (Life of John Boyle O'Reilly)
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A White Rose
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream-white rosebud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
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Be true to your word and your work and your friend.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
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You may grind their souls in the self-same mill, You may bind them, heart and brow; But the poet will follow the rainbow still, And his brother will follow the plow. JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY (1844–90) ‘The Rainbow’s Treasure
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Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)
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The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”1 —John Boyle O’Reilly
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Tim Pat Coogan (The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy)
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Be good to your word and your work and your friend.
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John Boyle O'Reilly (Songs, Legends And Ballads)
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A White Rose
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream-white rosebud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
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John Boyle O'Reilly (50 Classic Love Poems You Have to Read)
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You gave me the key of your heary, my love;
Then why do you make me knock?
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John Boyle O'Reilly (50 Classic Love Poems You Have to Read)
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O, that was yesterday, Saints above!
And last night-I changed the lock!
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John Boyle O'Reilly (Selected Poems Of John Boyle O'reilly)