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"A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged."
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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
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"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!"
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"Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures."
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"criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment."
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"But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God."
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"Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."
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"What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps."
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"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"
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"The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy."
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"Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of."
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"Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves."
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"Shame is pride's cloak."
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"Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence."
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"Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine."
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."
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"Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride."
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"If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him."
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