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Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

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Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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As soon as there was two there was pride.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

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