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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| Explore the dark recesses of the mind, In the soul’s honest volume read mankind, And own, in wise and simple, great and small, The same grand leading principle in all, … and by whatever name we call The ruling tyrant, Self is all in all. Churchill.—The Conference, Line 167. | 1 |
| Suppose a neighbor should desire To light a candle at your fire, Would it deprive your flame of light, Because another profits by ’t? Lloyd.—Epistle to J. B., Esq. | 2 |
| He is too great a niggard that will werne A man to light a candle at his lanterne; He shall have never the less light pardie, Have thou enough, thee thar not plainen thee. Chaucer.—The Wife of Bath’s Prol. Line 5915. | 3 |
| [To “werne” is to refuse. “Thee thar,” &c., behoves thee not to complain.] | 4 |
| I to myself am dearer than a friend. Shakespeare.—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 6. (Proteus balancing himself between honour and dishonour.) | 5 |
| The shin is further off than the knee; let me have something myself. Buckley’s Theocritus, Page 84. | 6 |
| You shall have her all, Jewels and gold sometimes, so that herself Appears the least part of herself. Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act II. Scene 1. | 7 |
| Seek not thyself, without thyself, to find. Dryden’s Persius.—Sat. I. Line 19. | 8 |
| Or sought myself, without myself, from home! Ben Jonson.—The New Inn, Act II. Scene 1. | 9 |
| Born to myself, I like myself alone. Rochester.—Essay to Mulgrave. | 10 |
| Self-defence is nature’s eldest law. Dryden.—Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. Line 548. | 11 |
| For I am the only one of my friends that I can rely upon. Apollodorus. | 12 |
| Of all mankind each loves himself the best. Terence. (Ramage’s Thoughts from the Latin, Page 401.) | 13 |
| We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves. Yonge’s Cicero.—De Finibus, Book IV. Div. X. Page 219. | 14 |
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