himself

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself.

First of all a person has to get victory over himself.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant__ body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, __he Hammer_ grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could__e seen the look on the face of Indomitable__ captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips _ intent on taking the ship for himself. * * *

A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just __nterest and Want_ play the role.

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.