Enthusiasm is purified and ennobled by self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
A chilling portrait of a man in radical self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematic Fantastic] Reference
No man can affirm that self-denial ever injured him. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Life with you would be all devotedness and self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A look of meek self-denial settled on the child's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable," says. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Is it certain that its satisfaction does not imply self-denial?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
True self-denial involves personal sacrifice for the good of others. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Perseverance and self-denial, however, triumphed over all difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
What self-denial, firmness, and magnanimity are necessary for such enterprises!. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It had lain there untouched through years of the greatest hardship and self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The power and influence of self-denial are well set forth in the following incident. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
It is a mistake to imagine that self-sacrifice and self-denial are precisely the same. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Personal import companies, in fact, tailor their pitches to tap stigma and self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Prozac Pipeline] Reference
It was by mere accident that his kindness and self-denial were discovered by his teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
According to his rigid logic, sickness was more the result of indulgence than self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
A man of self-denial has the true ring which distinguishes the genuine from the counterfeit. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
True politeness is best evinced by self-forgetfulness, or self-denial in the interest of others. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Man's wants increase daily, if he do not accustom himself in his early days to practise self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
While self-denial is difficult, since the promptings of nature often seem imperious, it is not impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Historic illustrations of self-denial, still fresh in the memories of many citizens, are to the point here. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
There's a certain willful, even arrogant, self-denial that mars this otherwise fascinating intellectual exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons Of The Pagans] Reference
She's like the thing you always wanted but didn't know you wanted it because you've always been into self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Hartsell: The War on Lust Must Be Won] Reference
The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
GATT is a large act of self-denial by governments pledging to abstain from some traditional protectionist foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Mercantilism] Reference
Laura's husband says "our nation's greatness" depends on "small unnumbered acts of caring and courage and self-denial.". From Wordnik.com. [Politics In A Macaroni Era] Reference
Now, what if Zenith should prefer the pleasure of self-denial, and refuse to let Thorwald immolate his desire so readily?. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Friedman holds up the "Greatest Generation" as an ideal, the apogee of national self-denial in service of a greater cause. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice] Reference
Accordingly, we find among self-realizationists, a tendency to repudiate altogether what may properly be called self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Let us not look down upon the child's simple act of generosity; it is these which accustom the soul to self-denial and to sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I persevere in this generous determination, though it engender repeated acts of self-denial, I cannot but be recompensed in the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He spoke of Germany as a country that has found a policy of restraint and self-denial to be more profitable than neoimperial ambition. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation With Putin] Reference
If your way were to be suddenly made smooth and easy your race would never learn self-denial, the only road that leads to a higher state. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
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