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| As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee. (Bernard Barton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree. (George Herbert) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. (Alexander Pope) | [▲] | [▼] |
| O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Because authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. (Lord Alfred Tennyson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where'er I've been, From all I've heard, from all I've seen? What have I more that's worth the knowing? What have I done that's worth the doing? What have I sought that I should shun? What duty have I left undone, Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That lead to virtue and to God. (Isaac Watts) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. (William Wordsworth) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news. (Edward Young) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. (Israel Zangwill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. (Israel Zangwill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. (Kurt Cobain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. (Lily Tomlin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally Kempton ) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ( Louis L. Mann) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is. (William George Jordan) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. (David O. McKay) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. (L. A. Rouchefolicauld) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. (David O. McKay) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) | [▲] | [▼] |