Definition of Himself

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Himself

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.

One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself.

Alt. of Himselven

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Himself Quotations

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

Himself Translations

himself in Afrikaans is self
himself in Dutch is vanzelf, zelf
himself in Finnish is itse
himself in German is sich
himself in Latin is ipse ipsa ipsum, sui, sese
himself in Norwegian is han selv
himself in Portuguese is ele mesmo

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