"In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended."
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"Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self."
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"One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant."
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"This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level."
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"History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition."
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"There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears."
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"Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us."
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"I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh."
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"Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others."
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"We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor"
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"A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand."
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"The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity."
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"I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full."
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"With self-discipline, all things are possible"
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"Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."
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"I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly."
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"I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self."
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"Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
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"The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit."
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"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero."
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