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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max Beerbohm

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She was one of those people who said I dont know anything about music, but I know what I like. – Max Beerbohm

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How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do important work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls. – Max Beerbohm

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Sacrifice
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation — the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. – David Lloyd George

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sacrifice

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. – Nadine Gordimer

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