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Updated: May 7, 2025
A brave, kind, tender woman. A self-forgetting, quickly-forgiving woman. A many-sided woman, responding to joy, to laughter: a merry lady, at times. Yet by no means a perfect woman. There could be flashes of temper, one felt that; quite often occasional unreasonableness; a tongue that could be cutting. A sweet, restful, greatly loving woman, but still a woman: it would be wise to remember that.
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me. This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: thus did the world once seem to me.
Probably you'll be uncomfortable, perhaps unhappy you are certain to be if you marry to please society and not yourself but better a thousand times one wild rush of real passion, of self-forgetting love, than an age of stupid, conventional affection approved by your aunt. Oh, these calculating young people!" Mrs. Farquhar's voice trembled and her eyes flashed.
Instead of a pleasure, they had proved, thus far, a weariness always excepting Prudy. She, dear, self-forgetting little girl, could not fail to be a comfort wherever she went. To the "Eagle" office they went obstinate Horace, patient Annt Madge, and between them the "blue-bottle Fly."
'But I assure you I DON'T, Mr Rokesmith, said Bella, half-crying. 'Not for your father? 'Dear, loving, self-forgetting, easily-satisfied Pa! Oh, yes! He thinks so. 'It is enough if he only thinks so, said the Secretary. 'Excuse the interruption: I don't like to hear you depreciate yourself.
Again, the little ones in Christ's kingdom become great by self-forgetting service. 'He that will be great among you, let him be your minister. Self-regard dwarfs a man, self-oblivion magnifies him. If ever you come across, even in the walks of daily life, traces in people of thinking much of themselves, and of living mainly for themselves, down go these men in your estimation at once.
Noble, generous, and self-forgetting, tender and most faithful in friendship, burning with indignation at injustice shown to another, longing to find virtues instead of digging for faults, her greatest suffering arose from pained surprise, when persons proved themselves less noble than she had deemed them.
Helen feared that Eddie might not have been able to get the wood in, so as soon as Madame and her flock had departed, she turned down towards Willow Lane. She had been in Algonquin only a little over three months but already the self-forgetting tasks she had set herself, were beginning to work their cure.
Standish for the camp, Winslow for the council, but for you, Bradford, the sleepless vigil, the constant watch, the self-forgetting energy, whose fruits are safety, honor, and prosperity, for those who lean on you." "But, dear friend, it is you who still must be our governor, our reliance, our father!" exclaimed Bradford eagerly, but Carver turned away and began the steep descent.
As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer.
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