Quotes with himself

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  • Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Algernon Sydney 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Carl Rowan (President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as commander-in-chief, to use military forces to keep himself in power.
    October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Orwell A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust".
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
    On War (1832) Ch. 17
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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