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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Amy Lowell

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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Napoleon Hill

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Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
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Jeremy Thorpe

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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Albert Schweitzer

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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
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James A. Froude

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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
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Helen Rowland

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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Sir Max Beerbohm

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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George Santayana

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One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
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Sidney Howard

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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Georges Bataille

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
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Charlie Finley

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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
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Elder Cloward

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Nadine Gordimer

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They never fail who die in a great cause.
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Lord Byron

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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Bernadette Devlin

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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?
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William Butler Yeats

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