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“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.”

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Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.”

Source: Love and Friendship

“Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.”

Ifs Way Whole Reality Beautiful Saws Sacrifice Excellent Fancy Substitutes

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“One of the most positive things about America is just like what we're all doing here today. We're standing on Jensen Beach, we're watching a beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic. It's all because of men and women who were willing to make a sacrifice so that we can enjoy these freedoms.”

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Author:Allen West

“Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.”

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Author:Tom Baker

“When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.”

Giving God Beautiful Jesus Christ Born Sacrifice Blood Jesus Christ Christmas Cows Beautiful Women Giving Blood

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.”

Wells I Can Beautiful Sound Sacrifice Drama Scene Demand Opposites Notes Prepared Meaningful Tone Opera

Book:Bubbles: an encore

Source: Bubbles: an encore

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

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Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.”

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Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”

Ifs Should Heart Reason Beautiful Faces Romance Girl Women Laughing Sacrifice Youth Ambition Beats Sight Silent Dear Tragic Sober Sweetest Parts Of Life Faded Sour Gowns Little Women Spinsters

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”

People Ifs Beautiful Sacrifice Car Models Deserve Freak Efficient Efficiency

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“That's beautiful,' Valkyrie said, looking at it. Isn't it? This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times, I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt.”

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Author:Derek Landy

“If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.”

Ifs World Giving Should Humans Together Beautiful Joy Human Beings Sacrifice Birth Murder Hunger Monsters Delicate Should I Fulfilled

Book:Wyrms

Source: Wyrms

“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”

Source: The Kingdom of this World

“She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra's death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.”

Giving Trying Happens Running Beautiful Generations Sacrifice Hot Luck Noble Allowing Funeral Zombie Explaining Future Generation Eulogy Hot Days

Author:Brandon Mull

“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”

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Author:Abbi Glines

“She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.”

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Book:The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

“There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was... She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.”

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Author:Eoin Colfer

“Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!”

“The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.”

Wells Heart Doe Beautiful Games Winning Individual Sacrifice Groups Team Personality Mutual Teamwork Softball Beautiful Heart Softball Team

Book:Life on the Run

Source: Life on the Run

“The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.”

Made Beautiful Effort Darkness Sacrifice Saint Extremes Serving Others

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina