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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with read more
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
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It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
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O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine
Yet keeps his book uncrossed.
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
