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The nobler the blood the less the pride.
-Danish proverb
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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
-Proverb
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
-Proverb
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
-Proverb
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I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
-Muhammad Ali
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
-Fred A. Allen
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
-Fred A. Allen
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
-Bernard Bailey
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
-Georges Bernanos
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Pride goeth before destruction and a
-Bible
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Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
-Bible
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. Ecclesiasticus 13:1
-Bible
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God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble James 4:6
-Bible
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I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke 16:3
-Bible
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
-Josh Billings
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
-Henry Bolingbroke
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
-Emily Bronte
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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
-Julius Caesar
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
-Albert Camus
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It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!
-Thomas Chatterton
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
-G. K. Chesterton
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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.
-G. K. Chesterton
A Hymn (first stanza)
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Books about Pride
