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Samuel Johnson

"Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages."

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Donna Grant

"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."

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Donna Grant

"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."

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Donna Grant

"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"

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Donna Grant

"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."

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Donna Grant

"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."

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Donna Grant

"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."

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Donna Grant

"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."

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Donna Grant

"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."

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Donna Grant

"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."

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Samuel Johnson
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

People

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Samuel Johnson
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Man

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Samuel Johnson
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

Power

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Samuel Johnson
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

Life

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Samuel Johnson
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."

Life

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Samuel Johnson
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."

Reflection

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Samuel Johnson
"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."

Friendship

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Samuel Johnson
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

Knowledge

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Samuel Johnson
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

Happiness

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Samuel Johnson
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Hope

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