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self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former. Charles Dickens
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
self grace trials
When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
self white black
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
self-esteem thinking self
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't. Alanis Morissette
self our-society tasks
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force. Alan Watts
world would-be birth
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
world marvelous
The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on. Alan Price
world save-the-world please
Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world... Alan Moore
world clock made
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day? Alan Jackson
world
I have the nicest life in the world. Alan Bean
martyr assassination
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. Alphonse de Lamartine
martyr overrated
Being a martyr is highly overrated. Patricia Briggs
martyr burned persons
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. Murray Kempton
martyr martyrdom
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. Leo Rosten