Thyself Quotes - Page 11

• There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

  Rumi

  Self, Lust, Desire

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• The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

  Francis Quarles

  Philosophy, Height, Know Thyself

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• A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Thee, Preserves

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.490

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Stranger, Retiring

  'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4

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• Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

  Alexander Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Fields

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• The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Self Esteem, Two, Lord

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• Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Plunge

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.41

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• One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

  Thomas Lickona

  Character, World, Patterns

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• We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Temptation, Depth

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• Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Affection, Bent

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 36

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• Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

  William Shakespeare

  Medicine, Heaven, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.501

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• Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

  George Herbert

  Distance, Greatness, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.105

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• Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

  Tibullus

  Grief, Example, Subjects

  "Carmina". III. 6. 43,

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• For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

  Max Muller

  Horse, Self, Lord

  Max Muller (2015). “Dhammapada”, p.84, Max Muller

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• Forgive thyself little, and others much.

  Leighton Meester

  Forgiveness, Humility, Forgiving

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• If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Art, Thinking

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ifs

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Water, Overcoming

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Fool

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

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• But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

  William Cowper

  God, Art, Crowns

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.58

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• In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Men, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

  Francis Quarles

  World, Littles, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.34

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• Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Retirement, Looks, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.79

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• Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

  Francis Quarles

  Thinking, Together, Charity

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• If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Humble, Feet

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.81

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