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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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Browse Quotations about Sacrifice

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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.
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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.
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.


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