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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
fasting praying study
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. Abraham Cahan
fasting source findings
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. Dallas Willard
fasting caution restraint
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. Mahatma Gandhi
fasting hunger reason
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like. Chris Mohr
fasting hours spent truth
I spent many, many hours in fasting and in prayer, and wanted the truth (to) be known. William Leavitt
fasting physicians remedy
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. Paracelsus
fasting efficiency greater
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency Plato
fasting died
There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight. Thaksin Shinawatra
fasting throat ifs
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out. Ruhollah Khomeini
longing provoking
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. David Mitchell
longing mothers
She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us. Kim Gandy
longing ifs
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. Anna Freud
longing stage
I don't have a vast longing for the stage. Anthony Hopkins
longing scales large-scale
Longing on a large scale makes history. Don DeLillo
longing no-hope
We have no hope and yet we live in longing. Dante Alighieri
longing seeds
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground Emily Dickinson
longing within-reach knows
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? Greta Garbo
longing appetite passion-and-purity
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. Jim Elliot