say to oneself

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“If they took you into the Actors Studio, it made one say to oneself, ‘Maybe I have something.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

Embracing then Modesty, say to oneself, 'Good my friend, Be thou content with flowers,--fruit,--nay, leaves, But pluck them from no garden but thine own!'

From Cyrano De Bergerac by Guillemard, Mary F.

To-morrow the bread will seem not so dear, the wine better, the tools less heavy, when one can say to oneself on rising: "Well, that old Mora had to come to it like everybody else."

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, 'What are 'her surroundings?

From Swann's Way by Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

There is something very touching in hearing a kind voice say what one has often struggled to say to oneself.

From Queechy by Warner, Susan