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No, even when the refexive pronoun starts the sentence, it is not the subject of the sentence. For example:

  1. Himself a carpenter, Joe offered to fix the church's broken step.
  2. Myself, I have no opinion on the matter.

In sentence one, the noun Joe is the subject of the sentence; in sentence two, I is the subject of the sentence.

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