"Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it."
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"For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain."
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"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
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"Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair."
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"For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work."
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"This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life."
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"Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below."
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"One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase."
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"She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them."
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"But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence."
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"The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth."
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"Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility."
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"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others."
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"When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful."
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"What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride."
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"All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it."
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"Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault."
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"Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride."
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"We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge."
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"Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too."
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