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There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails--he is such a dependent creature--he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise--that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. - Richard Cecil As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin 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 Men very rarely put off the trappings of pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. - Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. - Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde 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. - 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 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 Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. - Charles Caleb Colton Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. - Charles Caleb Colton Pride requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness. - Charles Caleb Colton Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. - Charles Caleb Colton The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. - Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton The proud are ever most provoked by pride. - William Cowper How poor a thing is pride! when all, as slaves, Differ but in their fetters, not their graves. - Alfred Daniels Pride, the first peer and president of hell. - Daniel Defoe Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage. - Dorothee DeLuzy 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) The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men; pride of manners is that of fools; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. - Charles Pineau Duclos Displaying page 2 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7
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