"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."

Sacrifice, Love, Life, Emotion

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"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."

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"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice."

Victor Davis Hanson, American Historian

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"One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."

Richard King, American Director

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"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused."

Nigel Short, British Celebrity

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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

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"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

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"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."

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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

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