I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ajax at II, iii)
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 4)
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Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.
Gerard Way
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Stacey Charter
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
C.S. Lewis
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18)
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Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it;
I like to be despised.
Isaac Bickerstaff
Quotes , Source: The Hypocrite (act V, sc. 1)
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They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)
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Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
George Chapman
Quotes , Source: Eastward Ho!
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 4, 120)
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Traveller (l. 327)
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Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
Quotes , Source: Mortality, Lincoln's favorite hymn
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What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 203)
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)
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Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Nicholas Rowe
Quotes , Source: The Fair Penitent (act V, sc. 1, l. 37), taken from Massinger's "Fatal Dowry"
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
John Ruskin
Quotes , Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Conception of God (p. 426)
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Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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