Selfe Quotes
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For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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More Selfe Quotes
Geðenc hwelc witu us ða becomon for ðisse worulde, ða ða we hit nohwæðer ne selfe ne lufodon ne eac oðrum monnum ne lefdon!
alfred the great— Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.
— p. 125
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
Roger Ascham— Toxophilus, p. 50. (1545)
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
john heywood— Pray and shift each one for himself, as he can.Every man for himself, and God for us all.
— Part II, chapter 9.
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
thomas overbury— The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder.
No man is an Iland , intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent , a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea , Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me , because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee .
john donne— Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 69
" I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to his Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou that give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actionsin like manner. This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine CIVITAS. This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)of that Mortall God , to which we owe under the Immortal God , our peace and defence.
thomas hobbes— The Second Part, Chapter 17, p. 87 (See also: Ten Commandments)
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can. Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
— Pray and shift each one for himself, as he can.
Every man for himself, and God for us all.
— Part II, chapter 9.
She is her selfe of best things the collection.
philip sidney— The Arcadia, Thirsis and Dorus.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, The Present Time Best Pleaseth.
Geðenc hwelc witu us ða becomon for ðisse worulde, ða ða we hit nohwæðer ne selfe ne lufodon ne eac oðrum monnum ne lefdon!
— Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.
— p. 125
