James Joyce Quotes, Pride Quotes, Ruins Quotes

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

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The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.

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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

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Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

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He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

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

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

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

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I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

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I can see his pride Peep through each part of him.

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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

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Pride goes before destruction.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham

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We are so conceited and so unproud.

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