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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Service
John Adams

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Inconsistency
Joseph Addison

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Friends and Friendship
Amos Bronson Alcott

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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Charm
Henri Frederic Amiel

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Relationships
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Work
Maya Angelou

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness
Aristotle

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Freedom
Bernard M. Baruch

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Age and Aging
May L. Becker

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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Parents and Parenting
Henry Ward Beecher

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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
Gratitude
William John Bennett

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Excellence
Wendell Berry

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]
Action
Bible

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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Praise
Ambrose Bierce

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Calamity
Ambrose Bierce

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Purpose
John Mason Brown

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Vice
Thomas Edward Brown

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Belief
Julius Caesar

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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Secrets
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Champman

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Critics and Criticism
E. M. Cioran

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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Self-image
E. M. Cioran

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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Uncategorised
Ramsey Clark

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Charles Caleb Colton

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Happiness
Confucius

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun