#itself

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cheerfulness #fostering #great #help #itself

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cocoon #dwell #hermit #itself #mind

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#itself #line #lines #pair #poem

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#comedy #finds #half-hour #itself #kind

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #i think #itself #life #myself

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#always #change #instead #itself #late

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#control #difficulty #enable #first #framing

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— James Madison

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