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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
loathing sound gang
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. Ezra Pound
loathing admiration efficiency
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. T. S. Eliot
recognition shock
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. Donna Tartt
recognition performances
PR is performance recognition Douglas Smith
recognition worthy judged
Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication. Cynthia Ozick
recognition manifestation all-things
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge. Herbert Spencer
recognition deals whatever-happens
Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens. Harry Browne
recognition quiet
Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning. Lisa Kleypas
recognition infinite eternity
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity Karl Barth
recognition sin salvation
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation Martin Luther
recognition foresight
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after. John Ruskin