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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
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.
unions communism china
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
unions degrees different
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
unions students active
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
unions soviet-union capability
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. Alexander Haig
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. Aleister Crowley
unions facts quitting
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
unions unjust would-be
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare. Albert Camus
unions classic blokes
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. Clive James
unions study economic
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. Anatoly Chubais