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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love."
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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
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"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
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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."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
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"Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value."
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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"They shot one of ours. The lines deepened around his grey eyes. 'I'd waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew's blood."
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"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."
Men
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
Sacrifice
"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
Ignorance
"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."
Content
"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
First
"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
Work
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
Age
"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."
Power
"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
Habit
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
Power
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