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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
torches boundaries social
By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation, Carl Lewis
torches feels has-beens
I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it. Ato Boldon
torches generations next
I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me. Angela Ruggiero
torches splendid candle
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! George Bernard Shaw
torches missions
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. Mel Brooks
torches guilty dear
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this Leonard Cohen
torches
Those having torches will pass them on to others. Plato
torches honorable profession
I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do. Rosanne Cash
torches nations english-speaking
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. Winston Churchill
delight ifs settings
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
delight holiness pleasure
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
delight far knowledge nature pleasure
The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature Francis Bacon
delight flattery praise
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. William Shakespeare
delight mercy spares
... me He now delights to spare. Charles Wesley
delight world christianity
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. David Brainerd
delight guests leisure
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. Agnes Repplier
delight matter infinity
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? Charles Baudelaire
delighted
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected. Bill Ayers