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  • If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

  • Forgive thyself little, and others much.

  • We read books to find out who we are.

    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing
  • Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

  • The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

    Morning   Night   Purpose  
    St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1550, Moody Publishers
  • Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

    Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com
  • Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

    Christian   Art   Prayer  
    JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171
  • Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

    Love   Peace   Heart  
  • Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

  • Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.
  • Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

    God   Self   Grace  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”
  • The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  • No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.
  • Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

  • Help thyself, and God will help thee.

    George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.239
  • If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

    Art   Christ   Lost  
  • Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

  • If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

    Beauty   Years   Lasts  
  • To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

    Self   Concern   Knows  
  • Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

    Life   Heart   Knowledge  
    Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269
  • I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

    Prayer   Desire   Praying  
  • Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

  • Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

    Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”
  • In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions
  • The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

    Love   Running   Peace  
  • And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

    Prayer   Invoke   Thyself  
  • Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of thyself and others. Even as was written of old: "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in Him: and He shall bring it to pass". (Psalms 37:5) I will be thy sustaining strength; and My peace shall garrison thy mind. Only TRUST ME that all I do is done in love.

    Hands   Mind   Done  
    Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”
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