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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

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For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

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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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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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

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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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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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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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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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Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

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

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

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The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

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He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

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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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