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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Country Quotes , Pride Quotes

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

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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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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

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Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

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One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.

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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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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

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There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

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

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

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

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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