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

"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."

"If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out."

"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."


"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."


"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."


"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."


"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
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