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Self Quotes by William Shakespeare
- It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's…
- Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first:…
- She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared
- Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
- Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.
- To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self…
- This above all; to thine own self be true.
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
- Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon…
- If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.
- In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away…
- I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self,…
- A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*
- To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is…
- But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to…
- This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to…
- Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
- This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden