Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Pride Quotes, Stupidity Quotes

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.

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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.

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Pride Quotes , People 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.

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We are so conceited and so unproud.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Humility Quotes , Pride Quotes

The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Pride Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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I take pride in being the same person.

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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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Pride Quotes

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Pride Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Pride Quotes , Sea Quotes

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Humility Quotes , Pride Quotes

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pride Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Flower Quotes , Pride Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Pride Quotes , Men Quotes

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Pride Quotes , Two Quotes

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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Pride Quotes