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• If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

  Jim Cymbala

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Jim Cymbala from Oct 03, 2015

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• A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Men, Names

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• Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

  John Heywood

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  Sophocles

  Birth, Dies

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

  Yoko Ono

  Expression, Pussy, World

  "Scores of musicians urge Russia to release Pussy Riot", www.amnesty.org. July 22, 2013.

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• All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

  Ken Venturi

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Interview with James Cramer at Kemper Insurance Open in Potomac, Maryland, www.asapsports.com. June 3, 2000.

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• Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Years, Year End

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies,
  And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies.
  How are the mighty fallen!
  Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears,
  Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears:
  Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim
  In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame
  Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe,
  With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  William Somervile

  Lying, Fall, Warrior

  "The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan". Poem by William Somervile,

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• I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Years, Psychics, Gone

  Psychic News # 4001, April 18, 2009.

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• The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Healing, Fighting

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

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• The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

  John Muir

  Home, Men, Good Man

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.615, e-artnow

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• Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Devil, Mouths

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.22

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• O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap,
  I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst
  in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Heart, Play

  "The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel" by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar, 1938.

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• The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed - we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.

  Albert J. Nock

  Moral Fiber, Law, Kind

  "On Doing the Right Thing". "The American Mercury" Magazine, 1925.

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• On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

  Martin Amis

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Laughing, Atheism

  Song: When I'm Gone, Album: Phil Ochs in Concert

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• How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

  Thomas Gray

  Littles, Lows

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.19-20.

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• Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

  James Ellis

  Home, Humble, Men

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• Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.

  Hugh Walpole

  Running, Country, Book

  Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

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• There's a place in the world for the angry young man
  With his working class ties and his radical plans
  He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
  He's always at home with his back to the wall
  And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
  And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
  And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

  Billy Joel

  Wall, Struggle, Home

  "Prelude". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

  Michael Servetus

  Philosophical, Christ, Trinity

  "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

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• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

  Barack Obama

  Up Early, Facts, Stood Up

  "Not "corrupted" by DLC, Says Obama". www.blackcommentator.com. June 19, 2003.

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• Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

  Anthony Trollope

  Giving, Progress, Body

  1864 Can You Forgive Her?, ch.24.

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• The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

  Washington Allston

  Fool, Mercy

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Children, Fighting, World

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