Quotes 41 till 56 of 56.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
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Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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