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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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"pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself." »Johnson
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"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus
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"pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Temper gets you into trouble. pride keeps you there." »Anonymous
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"pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages." »Johnson
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"We rise in glory as we sink in pride." »Young
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"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least." »Gay
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"pride sullies the noblest character." »Claudianus
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"Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"pride the first peer and president of hell." »Daniel Defoe
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"pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad." »Brad Moore
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"I'm keenly aware of the pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here." »Wil Wheaton
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"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." »C. C. Colton
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"pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value." »John Waters
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"Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride." »Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"
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"pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to." »Moliere
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"Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire." »Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"My Apology dose not mean I am admitting my wrong doing and you are Right. It only means that I value our Relationship more than the pride and Ego." »The Omani Shed
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"pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." »Henry Bolingbroke
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"pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." »Stuart Stevens
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"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." »Joe Paterno
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