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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Self-Denial

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks.—Sermons: The Joy of Self-Sacrifice.

Whoso lives for humanity must be content to lose himself.
O. B. Frothingham.—Life of George Ripley.