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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I went home another and a better man, with hope and trust and self-repose for company.

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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