"If you let pride stop you, you will hate life"
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"There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved."
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"Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation."
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"The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect."
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"No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual."
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"It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?"
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"Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied."
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"But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees."
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"The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?"
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"Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall."
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"For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves."
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"The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by."
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"A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation."
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"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
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"The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults."
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"What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit."
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"If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others."
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"I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living."
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"... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect."
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