Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
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And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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They've already been married and I think many people find it degrading to pretend that their marriage doesn't exist, ... They shouldn't have to forfeit their marriage license at the Connecticut border.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life?
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Matthew 16:26:
What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul? Or what can you give in exchange for your soul?
(NIV)
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?
(AMP)
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(KJV)
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Mark 8:36:
What good is it for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul?
(NIV)
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]?
(AMP)
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
(KJV)
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