Emily Dickinson Quotes, Self Quotes, House Quotes

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

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In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

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Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

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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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Self Quotes , Literature Quotes

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

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Needs Quotes

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.

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

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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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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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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