Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake, but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us, but specifically to self-sacrifice: not to unselfing ourselves, but to unselfishing ourselves.


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There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
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There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI