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self-defense

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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

And all the while she fought him, she punctuated her blows with words, some abusing him, others in defense of her father.

Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

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OCTOBER 26, 1985