#himself

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

#dried #fishermen #fishes #had #himself

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#counsel #difference #flatterer #friend #giveth

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#breath #deeds #each #god #good

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enjoy #happen #himself #immediately #man

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#difficult #difficult task #himself #his #like

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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