itself

See:
  • (something) is not going to (do something) itself
  • (something) speaks for itself
  • a house divided against itself cannot stand
  • a shadow of (oneself)
  • an end in itself
  • at odds with (oneself)
  • be (something) itself
  • be patience, honesty, simplicity, etc. itself
  • bind up with (something)
  • blow itself out
  • burn itself out
  • burn out
  • by itself
  • claim (something) for (oneself or something)
  • cut (someone or something) with (something)
  • dedicate (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • denude (someone or something) of (something)
  • divided against itself
  • draw aside
  • draw attention to (oneself, someone, or something)
  • draw up
  • end in itself
  • endear (oneself, someone, or something) to (someone or something)
  • engorge itself on (someone or something)
  • engorge itself on (something)
  • engorge itself with (something)
  • entertain (oneself, someone, or something) with (something)
  • envelop (oneself, someone, or something) in (something)
  • give away
  • gorge with (something)
  • history repeats itself
  • in and of itself
  • in itself
  • keep (someone or something) at a distance
  • keep (someone or something, or oneself) at a distance
  • lash (someone, something, or oneself) to (something)
  • lash together
  • lend (oneself) to (something)
  • lend itself to
  • lend itself to (something)
  • lend oneself or itself to
  • look (oneself)
  • no man is an island(, entire of itself)
  • pay for itself
  • punish (someone or oneself) by (doing something)
  • punish (someone or oneself) for (something)
  • punish with (something)
  • rededicate (oneself) to (something)
  • repeat (oneself)
  • repeat oneself
  • retool for (something)
  • reveal to (someone or something)
  • review for (something)
  • reward (someone, something, or oneself) for (something)
  • reward (someone, something, or oneself) with (something)
  • shadow of oneself
  • speak for
  • speak for itself
  • speak for itself/themselves
  • splash (someone, something, or oneself) with (something)
  • suggest itself to
  • suggest itself to (one)
  • throw (oneself) at (someone or something)
  • turn in on (oneself)
  • turn in upon (oneself)
  • vindicate (someone or oneself) of (something)
  • work itself out
References in classic literature
Because every thought, either philosophical or religious, is interested in perpetuating itself; because the idea which has moved one generation wishes to move others also, and leave a trace.
Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating itself, not only more durable and more resisting than architecture, but still more simple and easy.
In the days of architecture it made a mountain of itself, and took powerful possession of a century and a place.
Notre Dame de Paris
The noncommissioned officers (of whom there are fewer) perform the action itself less frequently than the soldiers, but they already give commands.
War and Peace
Then consider the garden of "my own," so overgrown, entangled with roses and lilies, as to be "a little wilderness"--the fawn loving to be there, and there "only"--the maiden seeking it "where it should lie"--and not being able to distinguish it from the flowers until "itself would rise"--the lying among the lilies "like a bank of lilies"--the loving to "fill itself with roses,"
Poems
As the opportunities she finds in her own country do not satisfy her, she has come to Europe "to try," as she says, "for herself." It is the doctrine of universal experience professed with a cynicism that is really most extraordinary, and which, presenting itself in a young woman of considerable education, appears to me to be the judgment of a society.
A type that has lost itself before it has been fixed--what can you look for from this?
Add to this that there are two young Englanders in the house, who hate all the Americans in a lump, making between them none of the distinctions and favourable comparisons which they insist upon, and you will, I think, hold me warranted in believing that, between precipitate decay and internecine enmities, the English-speaking family is destined to consume itself; and that with its decline the prospect of general pervasiveness, to which I alluded above, will brighten for the deep-lunged children of the Fatherland!
Bundle of Letters
This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment, insomuch that a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.
Hester's strong, calm steadfastly-enduring spirit almost sank, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom, which at the moment when a passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery -- showed itself with an unrelenting smile, right in the midst of their path.
Scarlet Letter
No wonder his thoughts were still with his loom and his money when he made his journeys through the fields and the lanes to fetch and carry home his work, so that his steps never wandered to the hedge-banks and the lane-side in search of the once familiar herbs: these too belonged to the past, from which his life had shrunk away, like a rivulet that has sunk far down from the grassy fringe of its old breadth into a little shivering thread, that cuts a groove for itself in the barren sand.
Silas Marner
The truth or falsity of a statement depends on facts, and not on any power on the part of the statement itself of admitting contrary qualities.
But it is by reason of the modification which takes place within the substance itself that a substance is said to be capable of admitting contrary qualities; for a substance admits within itself either disease or health, whiteness or blackness.
Categories
The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamoured maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty; and the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works, and will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
For the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it gives itself, or passes into and becomes that man whom it enlightens; or, in proportion to that truth he receives, it takes him to itself.
Essays First Series