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self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
restraint hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing for me is restraint. Alexandra Guarnaschelli
restraint indulgence
restraint equals indulgence Barbara Kingsolver
restraint urged wise
We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course. Thomas Pickering
restraint ifs
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. Mae West
restraint written
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint John Stuart Mill
indulgence
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step. Calista Flockhart
indulgence recognized
Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.
indulgence
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
indulgence persons indulge
The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him. Friedrich Nietzsche
indulgence
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. John Wycliffe
indulgence
There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence. Tracee Ellis Ross