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  • In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes
  • We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Law Quotes
  • They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Self Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes