We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
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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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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
