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  • Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Heart Quotes , Pride Quotes
  • Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Pride Quotes
  • While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Pride Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Pride Quotes , Blessing Quotes
  • I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Pride Quotes
  • But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in Europe. They sought liberty and opportunity; and their strong sense of purpose has over two centuries, helped create a new unity and pride in being American.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Strong Quotes , Pride Quotes
  • We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pride Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , God Quotes , Pride Quotes