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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Self-denial |
| There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. Lacordaire. | 1 | ||||||
| Self-denial is a monkish virtue. Hume. | 2 | ||||||
| Whoso lives for humanity must be content to lose himself. O. B. Frothingham. | 3 | ||||||
| Self-denial is the best riches. Seneca. | 4 | ||||||
| The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God. Horace. | 5 | ||||||
| The first lesson in Christ’s school is self-denial. Matthew Henry. | 6 | ||||||
| Great is self-denial! * * * Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not. Carlyle. | 7 | ||||||
| Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. Colton. | 8 | ||||||
| Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set us the example. Ary Scheffer. | 9 | ||||||
| Pure self-denial is our good angel’s hand barring the gates of sin. Abbé Mullois. | 10 | ||||||
| How happy one would be if one could throw off one’s self as one throws off others! Mme. du Deffand. | 11 | ||||||
| In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. Froude. | 12 | ||||||
| The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling. | 13 | ||||||
| Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not, and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything. Conybeare. | 14 | ||||||
| Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock,—from consciousness of obligation and dependence upon God. Theodore Parker. | 15 | ||||||
Shakespeare. | 16 | ||||||
| Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give. Phillips Brooks. | 17 | ||||||
| There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. Walter Scott. | 18 | ||||||
| It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent. Charron. | 19 | ||||||
| Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. Beecher. | 20 | ||||||
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| The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. Phillips Brooks. | 21 | ||||||
| Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence. George MacDonald. | 22 | ||||||
| The only conclusive evidence of a man’s sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him. Lowell. | 23 | ||||||
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