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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
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