Quotes with himself

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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Barbra Streisand A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
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  • Sir Walter Scott A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles Evans Hughes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Banville A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Dean William R. Inge A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Ben Hecht A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Buddha A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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