Pride Quotes
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Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Pride, as it is compounded of the vanity and ill nature that dispose men to admire themselves, and contemn other men, retains its vigor longer than any other vice, and rarely expires but with life itself. Without the sovereign influence of God's grace, men very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet.
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Pride, in some particular disguise or other--often a secret to be proud himself--is the most ordinary spring of action among men.
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Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed. As a principle, it is the parent of almost every virtue and every vice - everything that pleases and displeases in mankind; and as the effects are so very different, nothing is more easy than to discover, even to ourselves, whether the pride that produces them is virtuous or vicious: the first object of virtuous pride is rectitude, and the next independence.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
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Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it.
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The devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors.
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The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
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The mind of a proud man is like a mushroom, which starts up in a night: his business is first to forget himself, and then his friends.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The proud hate pride - in others.
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The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look, nor in the clothes.
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The sun will set without thy assistance.
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