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.

There is something indeed quite Quixotic, in the better sense, about the utterly disinterested and self-forgetting eagerness with which Herbert Spencer will set himself to see right done, even in the most trivial of cases.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

Lady Pembroke said, 'in death, as in life, self-forgetting and Christ-like in your deeds.'

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

We need to learn of Him, and to be filled with His Spirit of self-forgetting, self-denying, self-sacrificing love.

From Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children by Patrick, James