Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Stars Quotes, Self Quotes

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Self Quotes , Promise Quotes

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

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Tags : Abdullah Ibrahim Quotes , Self Quotes , Space Quotes

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Social Quotes

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Self Quotes

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Expectations Quotes

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Self Quotes

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

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