Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Pride Quotes, Slave Owners Quotes

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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Shame is pride's cloak.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don't bring in any other sin issue into the picture - the ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed. Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

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Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

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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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Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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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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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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