self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

In business as in society, one needs to carry the white shield of a noble purpose or a self-forgetting love, to escape the dripping of the deadly upas tree that branches above all humanity.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine

He did not get it fully learned until after Jesus had risen again, and the Holy Spirit had come,—that the measure of rank in spiritual life is the measure of self-forgetting service.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

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 Hall, Edward B.

No common-place woman, with brush or needle in hand, could be more simple and winsome, no genius could be more self-forgetting.

From Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Barnard, Charles