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In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie."-- _Carlyle_.
"You talk of self as the motive to exertion.

I tell you it is the abnegation of self which has wrought out all that is noble, all that is good, all that is useful, nearly all that is ornamental in the world."-- _Whyte Melville_.
"Jesus said; 'Whosoever will come after Me, let him renounce himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.' Perhaps there is no other maxim of Jesus which has such a combined stress of evidence for it and may be taken as so eminently His."-- Matthew Arnold..