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Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware! J. R. R. Tolkien
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. Augustine Birrell
William Shakespeare quote: "He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his..."
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare
Stephen King quote: "A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for..."
A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned. Stephen King
John Ruskin quote: "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. John Ruskin
Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker. Michael Chabon
A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it. Lois McMaster Bujold
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Jean-Paul Sartre
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex. Mahatma Gandhi
When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts. Ian Fleming
... every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. Oscar Wilde
Plato quote: "The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself..."
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. Plato
He saw each of his daughters, part of himself. And he remembered what Judith had said: 'You will live on in our children's lives.' And he began to get glimmerings of a new immortality, made up of generations, an endless succession of other lives extending into the future. Ernest Poole
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. George Eliot
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. Jean-Paul Sartre

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