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"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all."
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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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"The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory."
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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."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."
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"Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it."
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"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."
Philosophy
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
Life
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Life
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Soul
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."
Beauty
"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."
Beauty
"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."
Philosophy
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
Creativity
"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."
Self-Awareness
"A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man."
Philosophy
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