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"Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth"
"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned."
"The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service."
"We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship."
"Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate."
"So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride."
"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written."
"He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle."
"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"
"'Tis pride that pulls the country down."
"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise."
"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
"Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them."
"Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are."
"Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!"
"Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride."
"Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
"It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery."
"Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied."
"Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight."
