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• It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Thinking, Individual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!

  Fabolous

  Over You, Someone You Love, Okay

  Song: Baby Don't Go, 2007

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• Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pages, Boast, Written

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• Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.125, Criss Jami

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• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Whole Family, Begets

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Watches, Shapes, Wealth

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Gone, Modesty

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• Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Heads Up

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

  Vincent de Paul

  Truth, Lying, Humility

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• Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Lord, Port

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 327

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• There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Earth, Intellect

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• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Forever

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

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• There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Delicacy, Proud

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.201

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• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Looks, Inheritance

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Sin, Bursting

  "Aitken 'will not be priest'" by Jamie Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 1999.

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• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  People, Solitude, Independence

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• Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

  John Churton Collins

  Parent, Virtue

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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Growing Up, Men, Tree

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• Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Roots, Dirt

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.106

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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Kings, Pyramids, Medicine

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• Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Ignorant, Looks

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Views, Imperfection

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Glory, Glory Of God, Peacock

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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