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Self Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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.
- Every man is of importance to himself.
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
- 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,…
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem
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- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
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