Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything whi

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. – Joseph Campbell

Do not wish to be anything except what you are. – St. Francis De Sales

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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