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Here is self-repose, which to our mind is stabler than the Pyramids; here is self-respect which leads a man to date from his heart more proudly than from Rome.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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It must be remembered that Morton knew nothing at all of the real incidents of the preceding Saturday, and was aware only of the fact that something was wrong; that something had occurred to annoy and disturb Patricia Langdon out of her customary self-repose.
The Last Woman Ross Beeckman
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But while in ecstasy we give ourselves up to the heavenly beauty, the heavenly self-repose awes us back.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XV. 1909
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I went home another and a better man, with hope and trust and self-repose for company.
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Here is self-repose, which to our mind is stabler than the Pyramids; here is self-respect which leads a man to date from his heart more proudly than from Rome.
Uncollected Prose 1832
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But while in ecstacy we give ourselves up to the heavenly beauty, the heavenly self-repose awes us back.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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But while in ecstacy we give ourselves up to the heavenly beauty, the heavenly self-repose awes us back.
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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But while in ecstacy we give ourselves up to the heavenly beauty, the heavenly self-repose awes us back.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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