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“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

Men Littles Play Heaven Laughing Proud Authority Angel Essence Angry Tricks Ignorant Mortals Fantastic Splits Assured Apes Merciful Oaks Bolts Proud Man Spleen Myrtle

Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.”

People Way Heaven Boys Proud Treated Baltimore Bronx

Author:Art Donovan

“Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.”

Truth Heaven Sweet Proud Truth Is Queens Thrones

Author:George Eliot

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.”

Knows Trying Mother Heaven Walks Proud Be Proud

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.”

Has Beens Artist Heaven Careers Proud Chosen Honored Invincible

Author:Michael Jackson

“Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.”

May Stills Earth Individual Heaven Sky Proud Glory Institutions Add Shining Circles Graves Bows Arches Raindrops Luster

Author:James A. Garfield

“They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.”

Firsts Eye Father Names Heaven Peace Grace Effects Humility Pride Proud Creatures Praise Seven Kingdoms Sinner Grace Of God Our Father Dwelling Redeemed

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.”

“I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?”

Ifs Men World Should Book Helping Feelings Earth Universe Heaven Air Proud Pages Forests Globes Insignificant Herds Flocks Astronomers Mosquitoes

Author:Mark Twain