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“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep av...”
“At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.”
“All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!”
“You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect”
“We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good li...”
“Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something tha...”
“Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.”
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and per...”
“Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.”
“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 ...”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”
“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”
“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.”
“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”
“Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have toyou'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourselfno love, no kindness, no...”
“Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most importantself-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”
“Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.”
