Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Self Quotes, Grace Quotes

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Self Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Love Quotes , Self Quotes

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

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Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Self Quotes

Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

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