Abby May Alcott Quotes, Pride Quotes, Silence Quotes

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

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

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

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I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

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Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

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

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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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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Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

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One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

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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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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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