Charles Dickens Quotes, Self Quotes, Expectations Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Taken Quotes , Self Quotes

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , Space Quotes

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Self Quotes , Deceit Quotes

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Joy Quotes

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Faith Quotes , Self Quotes

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

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