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Sacrifice carries a peculiar reward which is worthy of reflection. There is a law of reaction by which sacrifice raises the values obtained by it; and this in proportion to the greatness of the sacrifice. First we pay the cost for love of the object, and then the great cost makes love more. A beautiful law of mind, a wonderful requital! If so much we prize anything that we will suffer for it, bear toiling days, watching nights, waiting, anxiety, hope deferred, men's scorn or pity or anger, one would think such valuation enough and attainment an ample reward. But what recompense so great as the object grown dearer and better in our eyes than from afar we thought, and worth more even than we embraced pain to pay? Yet so it fares with a purchase by costly and noble sacrifice. This is a law of mind on which well we may linger and behold with a certain awe the increase of the strength of the strong, of the joy of the joyful.
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Sacrifice carries a peculiar reward which is worthy of reflection. There is a law of reaction by which sacrifice raises the values obtained by it; and this in proportion to the greatness of the sacrifice. First we pay the cost for love of the object, and then the great cost makes love more. A beautiful law of mind, a wonderful requital! If so much we prize anything that we will suffer for it, bear toiling days, watching nights, waiting, anxiety, hope deferred, men's scorn or pity or anger, one would think such valuation enough and attainment an ample reward. But what recompense so great as the object grown dearer and better in our eyes than from afar we thought, and worth more even than we embraced pain to pay? Yet so it fares with a purchase by costly and noble sacrifice. This is a law of mind on which well we may linger and behold with a certain awe the increase of the strength of the strong, of the joy of the joyful.
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