"Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt."

Morality, Pride, Vanity, Contempt, Humility

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

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"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Explore more quotes by Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."

"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."

"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost."

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

"When in doubt, don't."

"Observe all men, thyself most."

"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."