#himself

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#government #government spending #heard #himself #i

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#control #himself #i #man #others

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ↗

— Max Lerner

#centuries #condense #excellence #greatness #hear

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ↗

— Robert Burton

#farther #giant #himself #may #see

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#correctly #delivered #himself #message #messenger

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#earth #feel #god #himself #his

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#case #every #fool #full #gives

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#architect #blame #builds #built #changing

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#brother #composer #died #far #gifted