To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. 4937 Hugh R. Haweis: Speech in Season. Bk. ii. Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. 4938 Sir Arthur Helps: Brevia. The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. 4939 Leigh Hunt: Table Talk. SELF-KNOWLEDGE. of Russia. Catherine the Second Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself. 4940 Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. The only thing a man knows is himself. 4941 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. On the Importance of a Man to Himself. Know thyself. Stobaus: Flor. III. 80. Maxim of the "Seven Wise Men." (F. A. Paley, Translator, in Greek Wit.) see Action, Friends, Jealousy, Self The way to get out of self-love is to love God. That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence, and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth. 4944 Benjamin Franklin: Dialogue Concerning Our approbation of others has a good deal of selfishness in it. We like those who give us pleasure, however little they may wish for or deserve our esteem in return. 4945 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 159. The secret of our self-love is just the same as that of our liberality and candor. We prefer ourselves to others only because we have a more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. 4946 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 25. Self-love is a busy prompter. 4947 Johnson: Works. VII. 323. (Oxford edition, 1825.) O villanous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years! and since I could distinguish between a benefit and an injury, I never found a man that knew how to love himself. 4948 Shakespeare: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind. It is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. 4949 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. Self-Love. SELF-PRAISE. A man's accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never. 4951 Montaigne Essays. Bk. iii. Ch. 8. (Hazlitt, SELF-PRIDE. Self-pride is the daughter of self-love, and this it is that consoles us on many occasions, and exhilarates us on more; it lends a spring to our joys and a pillow to our pains; it heightens the zest of our perceptions and softens the severity of our repulse; and it is not until this is mortally wounded within us that the spirit to endure expires. 4952 SELF-REPROACH. Colton: Lacon. I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. 4953 SELF-RESPECT. The truest self-respect is not to think of self. 4954 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Content to do the best work he could, to preserve his own dignity, and leave the rest to future. 4955 Hamerton: Modern Frenchmen. François Rude. Self-respect, 4956 - that corner-stone of all virtue. Sir John Herschel: Address to the Subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library and Reading-room, Jan. 29, 1833. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. 4957 Daniel Webster: Speech, Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1840. The Log Cabin Candidate. SELF-RESTRAINT. A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. 4958 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. Pulpit. There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands; and what is true of the Deity is equally true of his revelation. 4959 Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture. SELF-SACRIFICE see Courtesy. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. 4960 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind. 4961 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. I. The Purpose and Use of Comfort. The self-sacrifice of the Christian is always an echo of the self-sacrifice of Christ. 4962 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. XX. The Positiveness of the Divine Life. Men combine for some higher object; and to that higher object it is, in their social capacity, the privilege and real happiness of individuals to sacrifice themselves. The highest political watchword is not Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but Service. 4963 Arthur Hugh Clough: Prose Remains. Considerations on Some Recent Social Theories. Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice. 4964 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Sybil. Bk. v. Ch. 1. In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. 4965 Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him. 4966 Lowell: Among My Books. Rousseau and the SELF-TAUGHT. Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns. 4967 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) SELF-WILL. Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding. 4968 SENSUALITY. Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 43. (Jarvis, Translator.) Sensuality is the grave of the soul. 4969 William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Evil. Sin. SHADOWS. What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. 4970 Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. 4971 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iii. Ch. 1. The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they lie behind us; at noon, we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. 4972 SHAME. Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iv. Ch. 2. Where shame is, there is fear. 4973 Milton: The Reason of Church Government against Prelaty. Ch. 3. SHIFTLESSNESS. Shiftlessness is mostly only another name for aimlessness. 4974 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. SHIPWRECK. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. 4975 SHIRK. Shakespeare: The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well he is done for. 4976 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. SILENCE- -see Conversation, Eloquence, Joy, Restraint, Secrecy, Sincerity, Sorrow, Tact, Thought, Wisdom Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them. 4977 Addison: The Tatler. No. 135. Silence, thou art terrible! terrible as that calm of the ocean which lets the eye penetrate the fathomless abysses below. Thou showest us in ourselves depths which make us giddy. inextinguishable needs, treasures of suffering. 4978 Amiel: Journal, April 28, 1852. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) The people, doubtless, have the right to murmur, but they have also the right to be silent, and their silence is the lesson of kings. 4979 Jean de Beauvais : Funeral Sermon of Louis XV., at St. Denis. July 27, 1774. Silence is Eternity. 4980 Carlyle: Sartor Resartus. Bk. iii. Ch. 3. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together, that, at length, they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are henceforth to rule. 4981 Carlyle: Sartor Resartus. Bk. iii. Ch. 3. Silence is the eternal duty of man. 4982 Carlyle: Inaugural Address at Edinburgh. Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. 4983 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as King. Speech is great; but silence is greater. 4984 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Poet. The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,-words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. 4985 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as King. The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only the sphere melody, the melody of health. in silence, 4986 Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. ii. Ch. 10. Note-Book. Nov. 17, 1831. Thought works in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence. 4987 Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. ii. Ch. 4. Diary, Craigenputtock, Sept., about the 28th, 1830. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time. 4988 Carlyle Essays. Memoirs of the Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Review. No. Ixii. 1838.) Silence is the mother of truth. 4989 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Tancred. Bk. iv. Ch. 4. |