Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for
the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the
wildest dreamer.
--_Sir Walter Scott._
1714
Two things are difficult for man to do;
'Tis to be selfish and honest, too.
1715
Give us something to admire in yourself, not in your belongings.--(To
one who boasts of his ancestry.)
1716
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard
yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his
face.
--_Whately._
1717
Don't support yourself on others;
If the column falls, where are you?
--_Shaw._
1718
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge
us by what we have already done.
--_Longfellow._
1719
The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.
--_Rivarol._
1720
He that is warm is apt to think all are so.
1721
The Lord doesn't look so much at what you've given, as to what you have
left.
--_An Old Writer._
1722
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
--_Cotton._
1723
Self-interest is the compass by which some men
Do set the course of their opinions.
1724
Remember that self-interest is more likely to warp your judgment than
all other circumstances combined, therefore, look well to your duty when
your interest is concerned.
1725
The world is very much ruled by interest alone.
1726
The least that one can say of himself is still too much.
--_Joubert._
1727
He that falls in love with himself will have no rival.
1728
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
--_Holland._
1729
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
--_Geo. Colman._
1730
It is more easy to be wise for others, than for ourselves.
--_La Rochefoucauld._
1731
No man fights a harder battle than the man who overcomes himself.
1732
To me, there is none like you but yourself.
--_From the address of a grateful Hindoo
to Sir Wm. Jones._
1733
One always knocks one's self on the sore place.
--_From the French._
1734
You say, not always wisely, Know thyself!
Know others, ofttimes is the better maxim.
--_Menander, Born 342 B. C._
1735
No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight of a man whom you
have obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one
that owns you for his benefactor.
1736
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man
more sharply as ill-bred.
1737
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
1738
Some persons have a prudent consideration for Number--one.
1739
Some persons can neither stir hand nor foot without making it clear they
are thinking of themselves, and laying little traps for approbation.
--_S. Smith._
1740
We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us!
1741
We find few sensible people, except those who are of our way of
thinking.
1742
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
1743
The question was asked, "Why can we see other people's failings sooner
than our own? and why can we give advice to others easier than follow it
ourselves?" A sensible man asked in reply, "Why can our eyes see
everything else but themselves?"
1744
What others say of me, matters little.
What I myself say and do,
Matters much.
1745
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only
begins for man with self-surrender.
--_Amiel._
1746
Did it ever strike you that continual mourning was multiplied
selfishness?
--_Ursula._
1747
Take the selfishness out of the world and there would be more happiness
than we should know what to do with.
--_H. W. Shaw._
1748
"There is no harm in being respected in this world, as I have found
out," said Thackeray, "and if you don't brag a little for yourself,
depend on it there is no person of your acquaintance who will tell the
world of your merits, and take the trouble off your hands."
1749
Common sense among men born to fortune is rare.
--_Juvenal._
1750
He lacks sense who broods over the past.
1751
_2 Kings x, 16._--"Jehu said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the
Lord."
John Fox, the author of the "Book of Martyrs," was once met by a woman
who showed him a book she was carrying, and said, "See you not that I am
going to a sermon?" The good man replied, "If you will be ruled by me,
go home, for you will do little good to-day at church." "When, then,"
asked she, "would you counsel me to go?" His reply was, "When you tell
no one beforehand."
1752