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"Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted."
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Personal Development
"The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory."
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Personal Development
"There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride " the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings " flows from the conception of applying a person's best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments."
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Personal Development
"Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good, it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others."
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Personal Development
"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."
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Personal Development
"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."
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Personal Development
"He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him."
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Personal Development
"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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Personal Development
"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."
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Personal Development
"Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it."
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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Education
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Morality
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
Nature
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
Wisdom
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."
Enlightenment
"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."
Philosophy
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
Faith
"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Philosophy
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
Faith
"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Knowledge
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