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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden r...

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Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swi...

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Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the mascul...

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When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those th...

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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people...

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... I...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking ...

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

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C. S. LewisScrewtape Letters

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

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... A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inco...

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Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (...

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C. S. LewisThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

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The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perha...

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Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They ...

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Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man...

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The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometim...

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for t...

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But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatu...

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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...

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it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown,...

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I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

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Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you lo...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from...

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In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust...

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... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their ...

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In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us...

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David HumeA Treatise of Human Nature

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the wo...

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God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together and Prayerbook of the Bible

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the...

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they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures ...

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We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth...

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He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better tha...

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If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fight...

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Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression ...

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...how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintines...

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Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these...

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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har...

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He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

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It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUnt...

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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he kne...

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...

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Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-res...

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There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

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Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between hu...

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The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) Th...

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The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...

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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore...

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We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble our...

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Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity mea...

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Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely—taking almost a delight in...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowle...

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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another beca...

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a bo...

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conqu...

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My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

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Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and ther...

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The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

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Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at ...

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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecate...

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

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However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...

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No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of ...

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The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride,...

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To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

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He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, ap...

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It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride....

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I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...

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Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...

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It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should f...

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Graham GreeneThe Quiet American

...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

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H. Rider HaggardEric Brighteyes