self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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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 Hall, Edward B.

Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden With a love which made him noble; With the love that self-forgetting Fills the soul with higher impulse.

From The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare by Cotten, Sallie Southall

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 Marsh, George P.

These States have had a force of excellent speakers in the field, who, with rare self-forgetting, have worked as only those can who work with whole-hearted faith for immortal principles.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady