"In art the self becomes self-forgetful" - Flannery O'Connor. From Wordnik.com. [Forgetting Myself] Reference
Don't be too generous, nor too strong, nor too self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Sandy was too fine and self-forgetful to be touched by worldliness. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Hist, we must always be brave and self-forgetful enough to do our duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedge of Gold] Reference
It cannot be sympathizing, and unseemly; self-forgetful, and vain-glorious. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
A lively self-forgetful interest in external things becomes more and more patent. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
If you turn the pages of music for a musician, do so in a quiet and self-forgetful manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
The cure for all this is a clean heart full of sweet and gentle, self-forgetful, generous love. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
I know what to do to banish that intense self-consciousness and make the student self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
Make me self-forgetful, that I may be willing to make peace with those whom I may have displeased. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Is there any way of making "the girl of the period" into a vigorously healthy, sensible, devoted, self-forgetful woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
She is the most indomitable little creature living, heroic, uncomplaining, self-forgetful, and will yet 'die in harness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Surely the world is heart-sick for such souls great in compassion, self-forgetful, and triumphant in faith as was Kate Lee. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
He was opening out a new Empire for trade with the usual self-forgetful devotion of its employees to the interests of the great. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
She must tell what a good boy he had been, -- how kind to her and considerate of her, how manly, how generous, how self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Soames and his generation, more self-conscious, but not sufficiently self-conscious to be either self-destructive or self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
It is a 'self-forgetful "representation"' through which time appears as infinite, since it is defined by the standpoint of 'the they'. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
I could never be so generous and self-forgetful as he. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference
For many years I had been self-forgetful and scientific. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
Then, self-forgetful in the fulness of his longing to pacify her. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
He has listened to Walther in complete self-forgetful absorption. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Molly was so generally self-forgetful, that her happiness was not put on. From Wordnik.com. [Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World] Reference
Michael's arm, that his master was totally self-forgetful in his act of charity. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. From Wordnik.com. [Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy] Reference
"Is it thus you answer the warning of too disinterested and self-forgetful a love?". From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
She felt that one who had been so generous and self-forgetful had a right to all that. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
We create no forms, are self-forgetful, seek no responsibility, obey rather than rule. From Wordnik.com. [The New Society] Reference
My heart thrilled at a beauty that was so unconventional and so utterly self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [A Day of Fate] Reference
Her big brown eyes were wide open, busy and interested, at the same time wholly self-forgetful. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
He had a childlike clearness and simplicity of speech, and a self-forgetful habit of reminiscence. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
Before that I had seen only the world and things in it, had sought them self-forgetful of all but my impulse. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
"If a mere friend," she murmured, "can be so brave and self-forgetful, I have no excuse for giving away utterly.". From Wordnik.com. [Taken Alive] Reference
He might have been poor -- it was likely enough in that out-of-the-way spot -- or he might have been a little self-forgetful and eccentric. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
She is absolutely patient, entirely self-forgetful; she quietly relieves me of anything I have to do; she alters arrangements a dozen times. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
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