Mark Twain Quotes, Pride Quotes, Skulls Quotes

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Pride Quotes , Haughtiness Quotes

The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Pride Quotes

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

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Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Pride Quotes , Proud Quotes

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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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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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Heart Quotes , Pride Quotes

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

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Tags : Dante Alighieri 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.

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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

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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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Pride Quotes , Space Quotes

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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