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"Life was a gift from heaven. How you lived it was your worship. What you learned was your catechism. What you taught was your ritual. What you took was your blessing. What you gave was your sacrifice."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Meaning of life, Worship, Life, Sacrifice
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"Wanting neither too much to live nor too much to die."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Courage, Sacrifice, Brotherhood, Sacred Band Oath
3

"When the balance is restored, people get hurt."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Courage, Commitment, Spirituality, Sacrifice
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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.

Ernest Renan

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Albert Schweitzer

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7

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

John F. Kennedy

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

James Anthony Froude

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9

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

Helen Rowland

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10

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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11

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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12

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

Max Beerbohm

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13

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan

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14

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

George Santayana

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15

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Georges Bataille

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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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18

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

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Sacrifice
19

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Janet Morris

Metaphysics, Love, Religion, Courage, Death, Ontology, Faith, Honour, Male bonding, Sacrifice, Religion, Brotherhood, Love between men, Sacred Band Ethos, Polytheism, Platonic Love, Afterlife, Homosexuality More
20

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

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21

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, Let's have ham and eggs. The pig then replied, That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.

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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

David Lloyd George

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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Joseph de Maistre

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

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27

They never fail who die in a great cause.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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

William Butler Yeats

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29

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Paul Klee

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"Life was a gift from heaven. How you lived it was your worship. What you learned was your catechism. What you taught was your ritual. What you took was your blessing. What you gave was your sacrifice."

"Wanting neither too much to live nor too much to die."

"When the balance is restored, people get hurt."

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

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

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

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

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

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

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

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

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

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

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

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

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

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, Let's have ham and eggs. The pig then replied, That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.