Quotes 101 till 120 of 135.
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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