=Sects.=

His liberal soul with every sect agreed, Unheard their reasons, he received their creed. 1617 CRABBE:  Tales, Convert, Line 45.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. 1618 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 331.

=Security.=

You all know, security
Is mortal’s chiefest enemy.
1619
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 5.

=Seed.=

The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.  I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. 1620 BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iv., St. 10.

=Self.=

None are so desolate but something dear,
Dearer than self, possesses or possess’d
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
1621
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto ii., St. 24.

=Selfishness.=

Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
1622
SCOTT:  Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., St. 1.

=Self-Conceit.=

To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake. 1623 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 2.

=Self-Control.=

May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, ... by a gentle decay. 1624 DR. WALTER POPE:  The Old Man’s Wish, Chorus.

=Self-Defence.=

Self-defence is a virtue,
Sole bulwark of all right.
1625
BYRON:  Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Self-Denial.=

Brave conquerors! for so you are,
That war against your own affections,
And the huge army of the world’s desires.
1626
SHAKS.:  Love’s L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1.

=Self-Dispraise.=

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
1627
WORDSWORTH:  The Excursion, Bk. iv.

=Self-Esteem.=

Oft times nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag’d.
1628
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. viii., Line 571.

=Self-Knowledge.=

To know thyself—­in others self-concern; Would’st thou know others? read thyself—­and learn! 1629 SCHILLER:  Votive Tablets, The Key.

=Self-Love.=

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
1630
SHAKS.:  Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 4.

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason’s comparing balance rules the whole. 1631 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 59.

=Self-Reproach.=