#himself

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#been #cannot #ever #himself #limit

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes

He who knows himself best esteems himself least. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#himself #knows #least #who

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#also #break #fools #full #himself

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#aside #birth #day #does #draw

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. ↗

— Edward Everett

#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now. ↗

— David Brainerd

#before #called #designed #god #had

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

#constituent #god #him #himself #i

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#arena #chi #colonialism #fight #french