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• Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

  Joaquin Miller

  Angel, Men, Heaven

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• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  Xunzi

  Men, Excess, Disaster

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

  John Bunyan

  Fall, Humble, Needs

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 'Shepherd Boy's Song'

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, God, Friday

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.155, David C Cook

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Men, Cells

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sausage, Arms, Wells

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.72, Random House

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• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

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• All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

  Michael Crichton

  People, Accomplishment, Trying

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, San Francisco, People

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• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Littles, Reason

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Average, Voice

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• When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

  Emily Giffin

  Balance, Sometimes, Borrowed

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan

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• Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

  Richard J. Foster

  Mean, Discipline, Giving

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Devil, Apes

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

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• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, 4th Of July, Government

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.37, Regnery Publishing

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• Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Void, Steps, Failing

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.259

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• Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sea, Soul, Foundation

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.41

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• We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

  Andrew Young

  Glory

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• No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men

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• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cost, Hunger And Thirst, Cold

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• The proud hate pride in others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Proud, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Running, Betrayed

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• The tyrant is a child of pride.

  Sophocles

  Children, Tyrants

  Sophocles (1949). “The Oedipus Cycles”

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• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

  Emily Bronte

  People, Sorrow, Proud Person

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.407, Penguin

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