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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
hero-journey way realizing
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. Joseph Campbell
favors greener solutions
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions. Chiwetel Ejiofor
favors company happens
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially. David Dreman
favors discrimination bases
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Edward Kennedy
favors want ifs
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. Benjamin Franklin
favors facts resentment
You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.
favors being-a-woman young
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. Baltasar Gracian
favors sides should
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
favors fortune audacious
Fortune favors the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus
favors emancipation-proclamation almighty-god
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God. Abraham Lincoln