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As proud as Lucifer. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Country Town) How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. - Hosea Ballou Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. - Honore de Balzac When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she. - Honore de Balzac I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. - Henry Ward Beecher Some people are proud of their humility. - Henry Ward Beecher Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18) Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. - Isaac Bickerstaffe (Bickerstaff), The Hypocrite (act V, sc. 1) Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. - Berton Braley Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. - Garth Brooks In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14) Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. - George Chapman, Eastward Ho! It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. - Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. - Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. - John Churton Collins Pride requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness. - Charles Caleb Colton Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161) As soon as there was two there was pride. - Dr. John Donne Lord of human kind. - John Dryden, Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1) In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. - Benjamin Franklin Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. - Benjamin Franklin Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 4, 120) Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 327) Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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