“You're a self-centered rascal, aren't you!”
Spoken to Hakuin Ekaku; as cited in: Hakuin Ekaku (author), Norman Waddell (translator). Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. 2010. p. xxii
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“You're a self-centered rascal, aren't you!”
Spoken to Hakuin Ekaku; as cited in: Hakuin Ekaku (author), Norman Waddell (translator). Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. 2010. p. xxii
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”
Sometimes quoted with the spelling "forgo", but Bierce used "forego" in his 1911 Collected Works
Epigrams
“Nothing in excess, including self-denial.”
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 2 “The Peaches of Forever” (p. 29)
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
“…the Outsider's problem is the problem of denial of self-expression.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter Four The Attempt to Gain Control
“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
“It would be a great things, a brave thing, for the Hindus to achieve act of self-denial.”
Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 12 March 1931. Quoted from Hinduism and Judaism compilation https://web.archive.org/web/20060423090103/http://www.nhsf.org.uk/images/stories/HinduDharma/Interfaith/hinduzion.pdf
1930s
2000s, Bush's Lincolnian Challenge (2002)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 535.