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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
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
world affection should
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
world lines facts
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
world crosses remedy
The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
world causes christ
Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
world looks christ
There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.
world whole
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is Alan Watts
world victim define-yourself
Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
world forget
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
awakening began century ended history later record revolt someday
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper. Elliott Abrams
awakening realization first-time
We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual. Deepak Chopra
awakening world moments
The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.
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My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career. Alan J. Heeger
awakening enabling hypnotic physical sixth thereby withdraw
When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. Henry Reed
awakening moments present-moment
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
awakening true-to-yourself
There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.
awakening new-earth true-meaning
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
awakening evolution enormous
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.