To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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