quotes about Thyself
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Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
-- Aleister Crowley -
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
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Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.
-- Dante Gabriel RossettiSource : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.
-- Francis Quarles -
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Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.
-- Howard Carter -
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
-- Ieyasu Tokugawa -
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.
-- Israel Zangwill -
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
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Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
-- Joseph Barber LightfootSource : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.
-- Mel Brooks -
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
-- Pythagoras -
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To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
-- Ralph Venning -
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
-- Rob Brezsny -
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
-- Saint John Chrysostom -
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Know thyself because what else is there to know?
-- Sarah Connor -
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
-- Thomas a Kempis -
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
-- Thomas Fuller -
Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.
-- Tyler OakleySource : "What Tyler Oakley Taught Me About Being a ‘Man’" by Jackson Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2014.
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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
-- William Penn -
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
-- Bahá'u'lláh -
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God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'
-- Nicholas of Cusa -
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
-- Felix AdlerSource : Felix Adler (1921). “The Standard”