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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
Make us eternal truths receive,
And practice all that we believe:
Give us thyself, that we may see
The Father and the Son, by thee.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
Know thyself because what else is there to know?
And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
Pardon all but thy selfe.
[Pardon all but thyself.]
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
