Himself Quotes

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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most… — Richard Wilbur
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself. — Melvin Maddocks
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. — Horace
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. — Anatole France
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at… — David Bailey
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. — Louis D. Brandeis
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the… — Solomon Short
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him… — Ben Shahn
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable… — John Stuart Mill
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. — Walter Lippmann
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. — Erich Fromm
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order… — Katharine Butler Hathaway
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. — Lao Tzu
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. — Samuel Johnson
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his… — Dick Armey
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself… — Xenophon
None but himself can be his parallel. — Virgil

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