Rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His "unselfishness," his "sweetness," of which these good men make so much, were only one aspect of the Philosophy of his whole life. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
Specifically about Altruism (aka unselfishness). From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
Then unselfishness is essential to happy home life. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
You cannot learn unselfishness save from the one Source. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
"I think you can teach all of us a lesson in real unselfishness.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Is not unselfishness one of the first principles of Christianity?. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
How much of it do they owe to the unselfishness of the simple-hearted?. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
In the home there is unselfishness, thoughtfulness, and love expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
Organizations with vision and unselfishness must begin to replace them. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
To this end let self-denial and reciprocal unselfishness rule over each. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
"If we are poor we can still give love and sympathy and unselfishness --". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Men that have gotten back their pep, their ambitions, their unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Vain people have the most curious faith in the unselfishness of everybody else. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Sanderson is enthusiastic in his praises of her bravery and womanly unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
I must mention one of many instances of unselfishness that came under my observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
We show our unselfishness in preferring one another, anticipating one another's wants. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Book for A Little Cook] Reference
It was a sublime deed of heroism; a splendid example of womanly unselfishness and love. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Heaven is the possibility of fresh acts of self-sacrifice, of a fuller life of unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
There was no pretense of unselfishness, the conception was foreign to that home's atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Men are learning that unselfishness is the better way, although they do not always practice it. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Saul, in the spirit of these disciples, in the unprecedented and unparalleled unselfishness shown. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
Shall not her life of unselfishness and good deeds be put against this one insane act of her old age?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Even those who most bitterly attacked his measures admitted the purity and unselfishness of his motives. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
She went out into society, and was a general favourite, owing to her sweet temper and extreme unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
In Cantona's cycling analogy he is more all-round domestique than water carrier – unselfishness personified. From Wordnik.com. [Why groaning about Darren Fletcher no longer holds water] Reference
Eunice Mountjoy, with her calm, cool head, her perfect unselfishness, her entire devotion to the good of others. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
We hope that among men the unnecessary fighting will sometime cease, and that kindness and unselfishness will rule. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
It is earthly wisdom and unselfishness and good intent that are needed in this as in all the great decisions of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
This tale presents many stirring situations in which the boys are called upon to exercise ingenuity and unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [A Day at the County Fair] Reference
And so we find the light burning again in the lighthouse, thanks to the courage and unselfishness of a brave little girl. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Posh should contract smallpox, and his indifference as to himself, are admirably illustrative of the man's unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
Does it not appear self-evident that a man should be law-abiding, honest, industrious, truthful, and capable of unselfishness?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
We have presupposed a certain amount of education and culture in the home by maintaining for it intelligence and unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Such unselfishness as this was more than I could appreciate, and rather more, I thought, than was called for by the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Again, extreme self - sacrifice is not customary; it is exceptional; and yet shining examples of unselfishness excite a warm sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
This tale presents many stirring situations in which some of the boys are called upon to exercise all their ingenuity and unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
We cannot adequately describe all this, but every animal exhibits for its young affection and forethought and endurance and unselfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
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