#himself

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. ↗

— Robert Powell

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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. ↗

— J. F. Powers

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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ↗

— Theodor Reik

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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