self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

Eyes, voice, and gesture expressed the most absolute, self-forgetting enthusiasm.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

We thank Thee for all those who by patient toil and self-forgetting effort have made life as sweet and precious to us as it is.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

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.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

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.