ves,--others may
judge, but cannot know us,--God alone judges, and knows too.--_Wilkie
Collins._

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate
power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt
the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its
own horizon.--_George Eliot._

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self
and one's other self.--_Arsene Houssaye._

~Selfishness.~--Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts
half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor his infinite
perfections as much as our smallest wants.--_Hannah More._

It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but
themselves.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged,
it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little
scruples.--_George Eliot._

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are
almost equally sensitive,--the ill-breeding that comes from want of
consideration for others.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Self-Love.~--That household god, a man's own self.--_Flavel._

The greatest of all flatterers is self-love.--_Rochefoucauld._

Self-love exaggerates both our faults and our virtues.--_Goethe._

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there
still remain many unknown lands.--_Rochefoucauld._

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil
trait.--_Ruffini._

A prudent consideration for Number One.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature who has ordered all things in
so even a method that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts,
there she makes it up with a larger dose of self-love, which supplies
the former deficits and makes all even.--_Erasmus._

The most inhibited sin in the canon.--_Shakespeare._

Ofttimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on just and
right.--_Milton._

Whose thoughts are centered on thyself alone.--_Dryden._

~Self-reliance.~--The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine
growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it
constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from
without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within
invariably invigorates. Whatever is done _for_ men or classes, to a
certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for
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