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• Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Able, Way, Pity

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• Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Humble, Ancient

  "Recessional" st. 2 (1897)

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• it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Possibility, Lost, Fulfilling

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• Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

  Herbert Hoover

  Driven, Knows, Great Sacrifice

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Compassion, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.89

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• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Lying, Blessing

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Action, Cloaks, Motive

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• Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Spring, Promise, Coming Back

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”

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• I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Temples, Moments

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Self, Noble, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black

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• It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Religion, Church

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

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• Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Men, Color

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Race, Childhood, Panic

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

  Ellen Glasgow

  People, Neighbor, Conscience

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Poor, Made

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Play, Self, Giving

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Light, Flames

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.104

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• we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

  Hannah More

  Feelings, Age, Principles

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• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Rights, Abortion

  "'Evil Cowards' Threaten Freedom" by Molly Ivins, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 1995.

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• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Kindness, Believe

  Samuel Smiles (1883). “Duty”

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• Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Noble, Alliances, Deeds

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