28 examples of self-culture in sentences

"Self-culture with a view to the greater satisfaction of others," added the Master.

"That, and yet no more?" "Self-culture with a view to the greater satisfaction of all the clans and classes," he again added.

"Self-culture for the sake of alla result that, that would almost put Yau and Shun into the shade!"

If I have a noble purpose upon earth, if I have roused myself from that conceited dream of self-culture which now looks to me so cold, and barren, and tawdry, into the hope of becoming useful, beneficentto whom do I owe it but to you, Marie?

"Blackie's Self-culture, Helps' Essays, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Tennyson's Enoch Arden," gabbled Samarendra in one breath.

Mr. Hayne need only persevere in self-culture to be able to produce poems that shall win for him a national reputation.

It is believed that the notes will prove a help to teacher and pupil in special investigations, and to the reader who may wish to make selections from excellent sources for purposes of self-culture.

Nay, he who has practised self-culture in the higher sense may always reckon upon meeting an adverse majority.

But then how could he follow up his system of self-culture?

It conduces to the highest self-culture; and self-culture is our first duty.

It conduces to the highest self-culture; and self-culture is our first duty.

in fact, Minnie, self-culture becomes a duty,indeed, our first duty.

If no human love welcomed him, and no gentle lip soothed him, he had self-culture, especially in the sciences.

I will trust that, by the grace of God, the ensuing winter shall be a period of more vigorous effort and more persevering self-culture than any previous season of my life.

The price of successful self-culture is unremitted toil, labor, and self-denial; am I willing to pay it?

"Channing's Self-Culture, p. 30.

"Channing's Self-Culture, p. 33.

"You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently on each other,"Channing's Self-Culture, p. 15.

He is the strongest personality among English poets since Milton, though his strength was wasted by want of restraint and self-culture.

And if one of these uncomely people has a mind to seek self-culture and philosophy, Plato compares him to a bald little tinker, who has scraped together money, and has got his release from service, and has had a bath, and bought a new coat, and is rigged out like a bridegroom about to marry the daughter of his master who has fallen into poor and helpless estate.

It is especially favourable to large and elevating conceptions of self-culture, for it leads men to dwell much less upon isolated acts of virtue or vice than upon the habitual condition of mind from which they spring.

Do cultivate all the religious emotions, reverence, awe, and aspiration, if for no better reason than as a means of self-culture.

The immediate need of women's souls at the beginning of the club movement was for education; the higher education they missed by not going to college, and they formed their clubs with the sole object of self-culture.

These traits explain, though they do not excuse, his bad temper to the unclean and disagreeable patients of the hospital, and they mitigate the fact that his industry was paralyzed by material prosperity, and his self-culture interfered with by conceit.

She was undoubtedly a clever, cultured young woman; the great work of her life had been self-culture.

28 examples of  self-culture  in sentences