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But the incompleteness which comes of self-ignorance may be compensated by self-betrayal.

From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George

It comes of self-ignorance, and a low ideal taken for a high one.

From Home Again by MacDonald, George

Your misery in the military life, like that of the nominal Christian, arose from your love of ease, your cowardice, and your self-ignorance.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

But man, in his self-ignorance, does not perceive their awful truth.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

By holding one’s self entirely aloof from humanity one encourages self-ignorance.

From The Associate Hermits by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)