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Self-examination Quotes
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As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself
And myself replied to me;
And the questions myself then put to myself,
With their answers I give to thee.
Author: Bernard Barton
Source: Colloquy with Myself, appeared in "Youth's Instructor", Dec. 1826
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day;
And in the morning what thou hast to do.
Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay
And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too
Be down then winde up both; since we shall be
Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (next to last stanza)
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All fame is foreign, but of true desert;
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart:
One self approving hour whole years out-weighs
Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas;
And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels,
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 253)
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O Hamlet, speak no more.
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at III, iv)
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Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom,
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That's like my brother's fault; if it confess
A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother's life.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with
might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of
sight.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Locksley Hall (l. 33)
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Let not soft slumber close your eyes,
Before you've collected thrice
The train of action through the day!
Where have my feet chose out their way?
What have I learnt, where'er I've been,
From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
What have I more that's worth the knowing?
What have I done that's worth the doing?
What have I sought that I should shun?
What duty have I left undone,
Or into what new follies run?
These self-inquiries are the road
That lead to virtue and to God.
Author: Isaac Watts
Source: Self Examination
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There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: The Excursion (bk. IV)
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'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours;
And ask them what report they bore to heaven:
And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night II, l. 376)
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness,
the only real religion.
Author: Israel Zangwill
Source: Children of the Ghetto (bk. II, ch. 16)
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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you
should correct them. When you find none, you should try even
harder.
Author: Israel Zangwill
Source: Children of the Ghetto (bk. II, ch. 16)
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