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

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"There is no rank in sacrifice."

"Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life."

"People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is."

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

"It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning."

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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

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"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."

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