35 Metaphors for selves

I thank Heaven I have no outrageous Offence against my own excellent Parents to answer for; but when I am now and then alone, and look back upon my past Life, from my earliest Infancy to this Time, there are many Faults which I committed that did not appear to me, even till I my self became a Father.

Good senceless Sir, could you imagine I should swound for you, and know your self to be an arrant ass?

"One must not let one's self become the stone image of goodness," he said once.

I repeat The Count your Master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object.

Which self is the true selfthe peaceful or the choleric?

He that loveth so greatly that in his love base self is forgotsuch a man, methinks, doth love in God-like fashion.

I have, and am a little surpriz'd at the suddenness of it; and I my self am the unlucky occasion of it,to break it off, I told my Father how scurvily Isabella treated me,he thereupon sends for old Francisco, tells him of my complaint, and instead of disengaging my self, I find my self more undone.

And were you saved, And I condemned to be Where you were not, That self were hell to me.

The thing that divided them was the original misunderstanding, which lies, deep and black as the pit, between every soul and the soul next it, where self and not God is the final thought.

The longing of Armgart was to be a happy spiritual star Such as old Dante saw, wrought in a rose Of light in Paradise, whose only self Was consciousness of glory wide-diffused, Music, life, powerI moving in the midst With a sublime necessity of good.

This seems the very quintessence of thinness; and the matter hardly grows thicker when we gather, after enormous amounts of reading, that the great enveloping self in question is absolute reason as such, and that as such it is characterized by the habit of using certain jejune 'categories' with which to perform its eminent relating work.

Ours is mostly because social influence is always on the side of educated mediocrity, and theirs because self, coupled with corruption, is their natural incentive to all exertion.

Don't you know Self is the god we worship, and the aim of our existence is to have it wear purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day?" "It should not be!" cried Evadne.

It was impossible they could be united; and although a secret lingering of the affections over his fallen character might and did exist, it existed without any romantic expectations of miracles in his favor, or vain wishes of reformation, in which self was the prominent feeling.

He that loveth so greatly that in his love base self is forgotsuch a man, methinks, doth love in God-like fashion.

I dare to say my very self was an instrument of it.

Self was my idol.

What we conceptually identify ourselves with and say we are thinking of at any time is the centre; but our full self is the whole field, with all those indefinitely radiating subconscious possibilities of increase that we can only feel without conceiving, and can hardly begin to analyze.

Men cannot understand Truth because they cling to self, because they believe in and love self, because they believe self to be the only reality, whereas it is the one delusion.

ONE'S SELF, IS PRUDENCE.

Your fair self must be my fairest pay. MAL.

Then am I super-self, if such an expression may be permitted.

She says self and sin are the same thing, and that she is entirely dead to self.

The Conscience of approving ones self a Benefactor to Mankind is the noblest Recompence for being so; doubtless it is, and the most interested cannot propose anything so much to their own Advantage, notwithstanding which, the Inclination is nevertheless unselfish.

"For, to one's child every one but one's self is a stranger; and whatever your egarements" she began, breaking off with a stare when Undine interrupted her to explain that the courts had ascribed all the wrongs in the case to her husband.

35 Metaphors for  selves