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"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."
"Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner."
"Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it."
"Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned."
"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route."
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."
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