self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

To see my work successful, to see Bride and Bridegroom at length resting in one another with undisturbed, self-forgetting confidence, this is my joy.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus

Albano was pure, true, human, frank, and hearty toward all; there was no vanity in his self-forgetting pride.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Lady Pembroke said, 'in death, as in life, self-forgetting and Christ-like in your deeds.'

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

I want you to observe that in what I did there was simply the spontaneous wisdom of love—love, not fondness, not desire of reciprocation, but self-forgetting and reverent of its object.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)