Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Self Quotes, Swallowing Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

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I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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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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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

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