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  • Thomas Traherne Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Thomas A. Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
    Thomas A. Bennett
    Irish Carmelite priest
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  • Thomas Arnold Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joseph Heller He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • William Penn He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Ben Feldman Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
    Ben Feldman
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Ann Oakley Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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