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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. ↗

— Karl Barth

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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

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