Indeed, Tom felt very virtuous as he returned that afternoon to his lodgings; and so felt no need to look away from self to Him who alone can keep us from falling.
To him it seemed like a spontaneous reassertion of its natural self by his mind, and a matter for such self-congratulation and satisfaction, that it at once covered the multitude of past omissions.
Would that he had allowed his conscience to speak and his better self prevail!
You look more like your old self when you smile," he remarked.
I would have given up anything to see you your old self again--as you are this evening.
He came to his natural self again, with his hands tightly over his mouth to keep back the cries which had risen to his lips.
Never was man nearer death, for all thought of the danger to self was non-existent.
On the other hand, one should never allow one's self to be induced to undertake charges in which the probable losses bear no reasonable proportion to the possible results.
That would be to take the law from the enemy and allow one's self to be diverted from the principal direction in which reconnaissance is desirable.
Consequent upon Lin Tai-yü's return home, he was left to his own self and felt very lonely.
She Yüeh, "examine your ownself and you'll readily know!
But since it be your good pleasure and your purpose to have it celebrated with éclat, you could, needless to say, your own self have spent several taels from the private funds in that old treasury of yours!
Yü-ts'un signified his acquiescence as he listened to his proposal; feeling in his innerself extremely elated.
As regards the travelling expenses and the other items, the provision of everything necessary for you by my own selfwill again not render nugatory your mean acquaintance with me.
I have gone miles to listen to some snore that was reported to be peculiar; I have denied my self luxuries, pleasures, and at times even food, in order to hire reluctant persons to Snore for me!
And now I always ask myself the last thing be- fore I go to bed at night: "Have I restrained my- self today?
That is what one must always say to one's self must one not?
And one must strive to represent one's self if one is to be honest.
Last night he read me his latest poem -- one of his greatest, he says -- in which he tries to tell just what his Real Self is.
If one is going to take things up and show a serious interest in them one must not limit one's self to a few phases.
These little talks between the Self and Soul -- Oh, don't you think?
To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
It is not the bodily exertion alone which can profit a person, but the happy associations, the abandonment of self thought, the mental relaxation, and the pleasure which accompanies it.
If it really is as you say, that master his own self will condescend to teach you, James Telfer, the shoemaker's son, to read!
In concluding this meager record of the methods of earnest men and women of Illinois in their brave work for liberty, we are painfully conscious of a vast aggregate of personal toil and self sacrifice which can never be reported.
Will it be wise enough to seize it for self preservation, if not from principle?
She put the question impatiently, as if her hidden self and that of the girl opposite had been too long communing, in spite of them, and she had to break the tacit bondage of that intercourse by one more obvious.
Some strangeself seemed to have sprung up in him, a self that had a language he had not learned from books nor used to woman.
Her soberer self had the upper hand again, and she spoke now like the gracious lady called to some dignified dismissal.
To lose one's battered and yet still insistent self was now to be at peace.
Now, in spite of certain grim warnings he had had of late, he was filled with the old buoyant feeling that his body was a well-to-do republic with his own impartial self at the head of it.
This narrowness of interest, this deliberate shutting of one's selfup within the confines of the physically appealing, has been believed to be characteristic of all poets.
Although by fits so dense a cloud of smoke Puffs from his sappy and ill-seasoned oak, Yet, as the spirit of the dream draws near, Remembered loves make Byron's self sincere.
I had not got used to my new self as yet, and till I did, the smile of her I loved was more of a reproach to me than consolation.
You, my people, my own self even, have thought me an honest man.
The self which is thus introspected is, of course, judged and valued and approved and blamed; we know the ear-marks of common sense.
A full account of the self of common sense, in so far as this self calls for psychological treatment, belongs to social and not to general psychology; and the discussion therefore falls outside the scope of the present book.
The selfof language is, accordingly; not the psychological self, but the counterpart of the mannikin-mind (p.
We have seen that language has a large number of self-words ready made for us to use; and we learn in our early years—sometimes painfully enough—to connect the self with our body.
The concept is also practical; common sense rates a self as gifted or energetic or lazy or improvident; it is always valuing or estimating some Him or Her, some You or Me.
It is to be secured by each workingman living not for self and pleasure, but to do what good he can in the world.
The radicalism of the time, which neglects religious training, which scorns the life of the past, which lives for self and culture, is destroying all that is best in modern society.
Self-sacrifice means hardship, struggle and sorrow; but the true end of life can only be attained when self is renounced for that higher good which comes through devotion to humanity.
The painful experiences of this period are undoubtedly reflected in another of her autobiographic poems, that entitled "Self and Life.
George Eliot even goes so far in her willingness to renounce self that she says in Theophrastus Such, "I am really at the point of finding that this world would be worth living in without any lot of one's own.
To live for self, George Eliot seems to regard as immoral; self is to be ignored except in so far as it can be made to serve humanity.
For it is at such periods that the sense of our lives having visible and invisible relations beyond any of which either our present or prospective self is the centre, grows like a muscle that we are obliged to lean on and exert.
I will take This yearning self of mine and strangle it.
It is a condition of utter helplessness; and yet in it will rise the dawn of hope; for when man is most empty of self he is most ready to receive God.
Still it may not be so entirely, or even chiefly; the surprised self may not be the normal self, often is not.
When it is attempted pride and prejudice face the inquirer, and too often quite hide the true self from view.
We can never fathom all that is meant by the statement that Christ "His own self bare our sins in His body upon the tree.
Fancy a struggle for life in one of those burial chambers, with acres and acres of solid masonry between one’s self and the daylight!
If this cherished self of mine had built the universe, I should have dwelt with delight on “the wonders of creation.
It is so sweet to find one’s self free from the stale civilisation of Europe!
Of her very self you see nothing except the dark, luminous eyes that stare against your face, and the tips of the painted fingers depending like rose-buds from out of the blank bastions of the fortress.
Returning I staid all night at the crossing of the Salinas with a colored family who gave me good accommodations for self and horse.
They endured all that was heaped upon them by these lawless men, and the law of self protection forced them to organize for the swift apprehension and punishment of crime, and the preservation of their property and lives.
Some may say they would starve before eating such meat, but if they have ever experienced hunger till it begins to draw down the life itself, they will find the impulse of self preservation something not to be controlled by mere reason.
Then it follows that the poet is at his best, for he has forgotten the immediacy of selfand country and the world of men and things in the joy of singing.
His quest brings him first to the Self of the World, and he believes that this is God.
Why wish to give one's self at any cost the haughty joy of feeling and exercising one's liberty?
It is the memory of your own suffering and debased self which you hate in her.
I have caught a glimpse of my beauteous self and know the worst.
Her sleeping self had reawakened and once more taken her into possession.
He was conscious only of an overmastering impulse to rush out into the streets, to drown identity in fog, lose self in some demoniac outburst.
It would be so comfortable to throw one's self down on to after a hard day's work, particularly if one had a headache.
She does not show as much of her real self to outsiders as they think.
His purely scientific attitude must have already abandoned him when he knew gladness that Selfwas not the dominant note in this dumb threnody of fear.
Two chams forself and the young lydy, an' look slippy!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "self" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
