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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
vices moral virtue
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
vices virtue pardon
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. William Shakespeare
vices morality virtue
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other. David Hume
vices thee poor-richard
Let thy vices die before thee. Benjamin Franklin
vices photograph vice-versa
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. Diane Arbus
vices virtue deceiving
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Juvenal
vices popularity
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. Arthur Helps
vices littles too-much
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Augustus Hare
harbors unhealthy
I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore. Elizabeth Gilbert