1712

They that do much themselves deny,
Receive more blessings from the sky.

--_Creech._

1713

SELF-DENIAL.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for
the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the
wildest dreamer.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

1714

Two things are difficult for man to do;
'Tis to be selfish and honest, too.

1715

Give us something to admire in yourself, not in your belongings.--(To
one who boasts of his ancestry.)

1716

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard
yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his
face.

--_Whately._

1717

Don't support yourself on others;
If the column falls, where are you?

--_Shaw._

1718

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge
us by what we have already done.

--_Longfellow._

1719

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

--_Rivarol._

1720

He that is warm is apt to think all are so.

1721

The Lord doesn't look so much at what you've given, as to what you have
left.

--_An Old Writer._

1722

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.

--_Cotton._

1723

Self-interest is the compass by which some men
Do set the course of their opinions.

1724

Remember that self-interest is more likely to warp your judgment than
all other circumstances combined, therefore, look well to your duty when
your interest is concerned.

1725

The world is very much ruled by interest alone.

1726

The least that one can say of himself is still too much.

--_Joubert._

1727

He that falls in love with himself will have no rival.

1728

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

--_Holland._

1729

On their own merits m