Blessed Martyr

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or martyr:

“Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)