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And regardless of what they think now, they'll be at my feet if I succeed, and they'll put me under theirs if I don't." "How hard you have grown," cried Cyrilla. "How sensible, you mean. I've merely stopped being a self-deceiver and a sentimentalist." "Believe me, my dear, you are sacrificing your character to your ambition." "I never had any real character until ambition came," replied Mildred.
The proprietor, the maître d'hôtel, the waiters, the porters, the chasseurs, Mrs. Greyne and Mrs. Forbes, all turned about to face the determined speaker. And there before them, his dark eyes gleaming, his long moustaches bristling fiercely here stood Abdallah Jack. Man is a self-deceiver. It must, therefore, ever be a doubtful point whether Mr.
"The mean scoundrel, to sell himself for money!!" "No, David, he would not have sold himself, with his eyes open, any more than perhaps your Miss Fountain would; but what little heart he had he could give to any girl that was not a fright. He was a self-deceiver and a general lover, and such characters and their affections sink by nature to where their interest lies.
Thus is he shortened in on every side, until his individuality is all gone, and the humanity in him becomes as characterless as its expression. Every utterance of his life is made with a well-measured reference to certain standards to which he is an acknowledged slave. A scrupulously proper man is often a self-deceiver, and not unfrequently an intentional deceiver of others.
Asked him suddenly what sins Says, "if the door of the prison weighed most on his conscience. was left open he would not go No answer. Prepared with an out." Has learned 250 texts, and abstract penitence, but no is learning fifteen a day. particulars: reason obvious. Mem. With this man speak on any topic rather than religion at present. Pray for this self-deceiver as I would for a murderer.
For the rest are not the priest and the Divine he bows to, oft the same?" It was on my lips to answer, Yes, if the priest is a knave or a self-deceiver, but I did not. "Farewell, Allan, and let Ayesha's benison go with thee. Safe shalt thou reach thy home, for all is prepared to take thee hence, and thy companions with thee.
'And I repeat my question, said M'Brair: 'Are you fit fit for this great charge? fit to carry and save souls? 'Fit? Blethers! As fit's yoursel', cried Haddo. 'Are you so great a self-deceiver? said M'Brair. 'Wretched man, trampler upon God's covenants, crucifier of your Lord afresh. I will ding you to the earth with one word: How about the young woman, Janet M'Clour?
God, as I shall shew you by and by, is he, and he alone that is able to keep the soul, and deliver it from danger. Man is naturally a self-deceiver, and therefore is not to be trusted, any farther than as the watchful eye of God is over him.
The younger sort were greatly taken wi' his gifts and his gab; but auld, concerned, serious men and women were moved even to prayer for the young man, whom they took to be a self-deceiver, and the parish that was like to be sae ill-supplied.
Others, if they can and will, may see in such a work as this no divine Providence, they may think it philosophical enlightenment to hold that Christianity and Christendom are adequately accounted for by the idle dreams of a noble self-deceiver and the passionate hallucinations of a recovered demoniac.
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