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

“Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.”

Men Sometimes Would Be Pride Proud Be Proud Accused Accusers

Author:William Shenstone

“The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.”

Christian Interest Effects Poet Pride Honor Enterprise Heroic Worldly Fortitude

Author:John Dryden

“That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.”

Pride Shame Independence Charity

Author:Robert Southey

“Nothing is more short-lived than pride.”

Pride Short Lived

Book:The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

Source: The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

“Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.”

Kind Ends Use Body Earth Asks Answers Mines Flower Pride Shining Spread Heavenly Herbs Heavenly Bodies

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

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

Steps Failing Pride Wit Void Defence

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope

“Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”

Pride Fool Proud Breasts Woe Pageant

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Men Made Reason Lost Left Causes Brother Pride Sorrow Disease Ambition Madness Riches Drunk Cups Disappointed Lunacy

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.”

Thinking Shows House Pride Eating Hang Ups

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Book Would Be Certain Streets Particular Expression Pride Citizens Fame Universal Affection Atmosphere Paris Spells Jest Marseille

Book:The Arrow of Gold

Source: The Arrow of Gold

“When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Turns Women Pride Bears Female Species Males Monsters Teeth Scare Nails Peasants

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.”

Men Pride Proud Excuse Delicacy Proud Man

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.”

Ifs Should Believe Humans Happens Jobs Work Human Beings Identity Pride Equal Labor Dignity Tasks

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.”

Ifs May Joy Sacrifice Pride Misery Faults Prepared Possession Midst Boast Thorough Disclosure

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.”

Feels Pleasure Pride Kissing Warm Fancy Fickle

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.”

Light Understanding Humility Pride

Book:Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

Source: Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

“Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.”

Pride Glory Shame Command Vanity Vain Folly Prologue Lackeys

Author:Francis Quarles

“Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.”

Justice Virtue Pride Beloved Prudence Fortitude Constraints Temperance Enticement

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.”

Men Reason Suffering Advice Pride Scope

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.”

Men Order Quality Pride Arrogance Proportion Despise Aristocracy Personal Pride Pride And Arrogance

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”

Thinking Opinion Humility Pride Ambition Lows Envy Worldly Attainment Emulation

Author:Joseph Hall

“When pride thaws, look for floods.”

Looks Pride Flood

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.”

Humans States Emotion Democracy Special Emotional Pride Spring Laughter Bases Police Shame Democratic Oneself Crowds Expenses Willingness Procedures Aristocracy Police State Human Emotions

Author:Margaret Mead

“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.”

Art Use Used Purpose Fall Names Justice Greater Pride Guilt Profound Passing Passings Painter Sensuality Vain Proportion Rome Bells Provoking Spain Venice Decoration Leonardo Raphael Milan

Author:John Ruskin

“Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.”

Truth Age Childhood Pride Fingers Manhood

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth

“If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.”

Ifs Men Done Action Interest Pride Ought Proud Bottom Be Proud Lurking Good Actions

Book:The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...

Source: The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...

“Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.”

Reason Pride Degrees Good Humor

Author:Isaac Watts

“Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”

Giving Action Common Virtue Pride Charity Ill Sanctions Despicable Good Nature

Book:The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition

Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition

“There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.”