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It was like her self-forgetfulness to transfer the remark to my sister, and to get up and be busy about her, making her more comfortable; “that’s sadly true!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Fill our souls with Thy joy and strengthen us in the spirit of self-forgetfulness to spill it out into the lives of others.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

Some of the friars had complained of the severity of their mode of life and of the rules imposed upon them; but all finally agree thereto, with great self-forgetfulness and devotion.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

But what human love could do, what patient self-forgetfulness might teach, she vowed that she would do and teach; and what clinging hands might compass to delay the end, her hands should compass.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

“I will go,” she says, speaking aloud in her self-forgetfulness; “I will go,—but it shall be for the last time!”

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.