self-forgetting
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 15, 2014
But with all her cheerfulness, and self-forgetting, heroic courage, Mary was not proof against danger and disease.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
To see my work successful, to see Bride and Bridegroom at length resting in one another with undisturbed, self-forgetting confidence, this is my joy.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
We can repay our debt to our noble forefathers only by a like magnanimity, by a like self-forgetting care for the moral and material interests of our own posterity.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
I want you to observe that in what I did there was simply the spontaneous wisdom of love—love, not fondness, not desire of reciprocation, but self-forgetting and reverent of its object.
From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Elizabeth P. (Palmer) Peabody
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