self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

She had been in Algonquin only a little over three months but already the self-forgetting tasks she had set herself, were beginning to work their cure.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

These States have had a force of excellent speakers in the field, who, with rare self-forgetting, have worked as only those can who work with whole-hearted faith for immortal principles.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

By such community of life self-love is transfigured, and exalted into the purest self-forgetting.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

There is something indeed quite Quixotic, in the better sense, about the utterly disinterested and self-forgetting eagerness with which Herbert Spencer will set himself to see right done, even in the most trivial of cases.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin