Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Pride Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

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There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

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There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

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Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

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