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• Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Independent, Pride

  Daniel Webster (1825). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England. ...”

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• My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

  James Brown

  Crazy, Son, Names

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• In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.

  William Joyce

  Sorry, War, Son

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• In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

  John Piper

  Pride, Wrath, Affair

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.32, Baker Books

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• I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

  Henry Fairfield Osborn

  Character, Science, Pride

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• A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Absurdity, Malicious

  Jonathan Edwards (1824). “The Treatise on Religious Affections”, p.234

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• I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

  John Linder

  Country, Citizens, Belief

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• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  John Linder

  Strong, War, Father

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• The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Sorrow, Stones

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.52

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• I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Ireland

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• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

  Ryan White

  Sister, Mom, Sorry

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• Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

  Richard Cecil

  Philosophy, Men, Grace

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• The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

  Isaiah

  Lord, Almighty, Stores

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• All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

  Donald Evans

  Hymns, Development, Morocco

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• The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Believe, Humble

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  You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

  Dean Smith

  Should, Right Thing, Just Do It

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• All the bullets and all the bombs that explode all over the world won't leave the impact, when all is said and done, of a dollar bill dropped in the Jimmy Fund pot by a warm heart and a willing hand. You should be proud and happy to know that your contribution will someday help some kid to a better life.

  Ted Williams

  Heart, Kids, Impact

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• When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

  Luqman

  People, Silence, Speech

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• I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

  John Dyer

  Age, Able, Artistic

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• I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

  Charles A. Dana

  Divine, Providence, Felt

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• As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

  Gordon Smith

  Effort, President, Bail

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• Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

  Henry Taylor

  Fall, Character, Men

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.27

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• We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.

  John Bright

  Country, Mother, Years

  Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865

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• A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

  Christopher Morley

  Mind, Library, Life Is

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

  Thomas Campbell

  Art, Philosophy, Sky

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook (1821). “New Monthly Magazine”, p.16

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