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pride sickness breaking-down
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. Charles Dickens
pride men becoming
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. Charles Caleb Colton
pride keepers
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
pride may charity
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride common-sense prudence
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride cutting animal
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
pride self vanity
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
pride charity may
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
lightning awful
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
lightning brilliant disappear
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears. Avicenna
lightning process rod turkish turned
The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent, Jack Straw
lightning seen
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. E. F. Benson
lightning time-passes knows
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. Billie Joe Armstrong
lightning maybe strike strikes
So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me. Harry Harrison
lightning crash thunder
If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder. Ben Mendelsohn
lightning people percent problem wish
The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.
lightning severe sure
We're not sure of the cause, but there was severe lightning in the area.
vow contracts ceremony
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. Beatrice Lillie
vow steadiness
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. Deb Caletti
vow advise
I'm taking a vow not to advise. Barbara Bush
vow
Vow to be valiant;Resolve to be radiant;Determine to be dynamic;Strive to be sincere;Aspire to be attuned.
vowels london tone
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American. John Oliver
vow unbound persons
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon. Mahatma Gandhi
vow snaps
The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.
vowed
You see it in their faces. He'll be back they say of someone who has vowed to reform.
vow marriage-vows absurdity
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. George Sand