Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

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Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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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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I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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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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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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