"My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise."
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"Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!"
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"Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."
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"'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves."
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"Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride."
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"I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good."
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"We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government."
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"Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling."
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"Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham"
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"Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes"
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"Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country."
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"Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century."
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"As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities."
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". . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life."
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"What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance."
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"A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'."
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"I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts."
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"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."
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"I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education."
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
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