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A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.

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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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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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We are so conceited and so unproud.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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Pride goes before destruction.

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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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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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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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All pride is willing pride.

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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

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