SELF-LOVE. It is the nature of extreme self-lovers as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. Self-love was born before love. - De Finod. Man's that savage beast whose mind, from reason to self-love declined, delights to prey Almost every one flatters himself that he and upon his kind. — Sir J. Denham. his are exceptionable. — Alphonse Karr. The world is governed by love, - self-love. I to myself am dearer than a friend. Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature, who has ordered all things in so even a method that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts, there she makes it up with a larger dose of self-love, which supplies the former deficits and makes all even. - Erasmus. Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. - Rochefoucauld. Love thyself last. - Shakspeare. That the principle of self-love (or, in other words, the desire of happiness) is neither an object of approbation nor of blame, is sufficiently obvious. It is inseparable from the nature of man as a rational and a sensitive being. Dugald Stewart. Rivarol. Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. Washington. If women only knew the extent of their power! - Alphonse Karr. Help thyself, and God will help thee. George Herbert. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness. - Kossuth. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. Livy. Nine times out of ten, the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. James A. Garfield. The supreme fall of falls is this, - the first doubt of one's self. Mme. de Gasparin. Time and I against any two! - Philip II. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. John Neal. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Samuel Smiles. SELF-RESPECT. Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself. Pythagoras. A man can do without his own approbation in much society, but he must make great exertions to gain it when he lives alone. Sydney Smith. Self-respect governs morality; respect for others governs our behavior. — Ségur. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul; so only can you be true to God.-Theodore Parker. All must respect those who respect themselves. Beaconsfield. The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, are the marks of a strange inversion. Pascal. Sensibility is Nature's celestial spring. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. - The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart. Halleck. The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest. — Longfellow. |