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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. Its a spiritual dissipation. – Margaret Deland

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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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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. – Paul Klee

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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. – Johann von Goethe

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