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I will only add, God bless you.
Jane Austen
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it
Mark Twain
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Baron Wessenberg
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of
Benjamin Franklin
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.'
C.S. Lewis
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the
Albert Einstein
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte
