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The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up. - Charles Henry Fowler The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. - James Anthony Froude Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Part Politics Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. - Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin A long experience impresses me with the belief that selfishness does not grow in intensity as we move downward in society from class to class. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves! - Madame Guyon To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. - Hugh Reginald Haweis Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. - Sir Arthur Helps How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. - George Stillman Hillard The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) It is not truth, justice, liberty, which men seek; they seek only themselves. And O that they knew how to seek themselves aright! - Hermann Jacobi The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain. - Thomas Jefferson No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? - Joseph Joubert Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (V, 115) We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. - Jean de la Bruyere How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) If a man fancies that he loves his mistress for her own sake, he is very much mistaken. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld "I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb. - Thomas Babington Macaulay No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. - George MacDonald A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. - Sir James Mackintosh It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies. - Harriet Martineau We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. - James Martineau Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants. - Hannah More Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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