John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reillywas an Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer. As a youth in Ireland, he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for the Irish community and culture, through his editorship of the Boston newspaper The Pilot, his prolific writing, and his lecture tours...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 June 1844
CountryIreland
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
Anonymity is the fame of the future.
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.