Was Cassius a patriot or a self-seeking politician?. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
It is self-seeking, using the speech and accents of love. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
But as time went on negligence and self-seeking crept in. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
His spirit is not one of self-seeking, but of self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Was Hobbes really self-seeking when he gave the sixpence to the old beggar?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But he was self-seeking, foolishly vain, and madly ambitious of military glory. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
He is the only real man in this whole spindling, self-seeking, artificial crowd!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Our hearts must be free from self-seeking, from regret, from anger, from restlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
But self-seeking, as understood by different men, appears to take on different aspects. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
If it be complex and self-seeking, the Manners will be artificial, affected, or insincere. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
Highly-toned and pure as her spirit was, it shrank from any strain of self-seeking or pride. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
I am a mass of vanity and self-seeking in my own way, but it is a great pleasure to cry down. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
Combine and conquer the militarist enemy and the self-seeking imperialists today, once and for all. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
However much the licentious grossness of Lady Booby, the shameless self-seeking of her waiting-woman. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
A pliant judiciary and timid, self-seeking politicians rarely, if ever, challenge the military's clout. From Wordnik.com. [Power And Privilege] Reference
The man who accepts such a doctrine and consistently walks in the light must be set down as self-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Because a lot of times people give advice and it's misguided or it's self-seeking and they may not know it. From Wordnik.com. [Help 'Ask Amy' Write A Commencement Speech] Reference
There can never be true friendship without self-respect, and unless soul meets soul free from self-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
She never thought of Ruth as self-seeking; merely attributed the measure of success she obtained to cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
Let me sternly shake off some things -- all frivolity, easeful indifference, the spirit of haste and self-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Start the day with this thought, 'I will live this day without discontent, without self-seeking, and without anxiety.'. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
Ingenious malignity looks in vain for the faintest trace of self-seeking in His motives; sensuality shrinks abashed from. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
This troubling state of affairs is only because of some crooked, self-seeking demagogues who call themselves politicians. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Anxiety And The Brain] Reference
Why should the moral consciousness of the higher races accept the principle which places self-sacrifice above self-seeking?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
'Imperialism' and the unscrupulous and self-seeking policy, so the aristocratic party deemed it, of its accredited leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Poor Nevil, who was the least self-seeking of men, could not endure any reminder of his elder brother's real condition of life. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
On this view, all men are, in a sense, self-seeking, but only those are reprehensibly self-seeking who have narrow and scanty selves. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Nineteenth-century philosophers attempted frequently to explain how individuals who were natively self-seeking ever came to act socially. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Songs here remind us of a season that celebrates self-seeking, selfless love, and mystery as much as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.". From Wordnik.com. [Music For Sting's Favorite Season] Reference
Bolsheviks, the British War Office, Our War Department and self-seeking individuals who passed out propaganda, failed miserably in the end. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Now quietness and good order, sober, discreet, self-seeking, decorous epicureanism and the rest, are not precisely the virtues that will save. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But common sense and the common usage of speech do not sanction such statements as that a man necessarily lives for himself and that all men are self-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The idea so familiar to the self-seeking spirit, that "it is not worth while" to trouble about a passing acquaintance, finds no echo in this hospitable coterie. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
No suspicion of self-seeking stains his fair fame; but ever mindful of his solemn oath, he seeks with clean hands and a pure heart the welfare of the whole country. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
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