Himself Quotes
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Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.
George Frideric Handel
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
Bill Clinton
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
Cesare Pavese
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Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
Geoffrey Barraclough
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.
Charles J. Chaput
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It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.
Mikaela Hoover
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He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.
Michael Baden
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
Paul Hoffman
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
Wilder Penfield
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Gentle to others, to himself severe.
Samuel Rogers
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
Seneca the Younger
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Abe H. Weiler
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Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
William Romaine
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
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In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.
Roberto Orci
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Richard Steele
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What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
Saul Bellow