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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.
forming government proceed
We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly. Matthias Platzeck
formal terrible settings
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. David Knopfler
form novel mediums
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. Chad Harbach
form disguise behinds
Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. Bruno Schulz
form good including lump magical neutrality tolerate toward
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil. Michel Onfray
form protesting
We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism. Abhisit Vejjajiva
form forward great looking moment
We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match. Alex Ferguson
form rapper whatever whereas
I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot. Method Man
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. Nicolas Roeg
boasters boast
Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. Eliza Haywood
boasting bore devil grotesque mental pin special superior vanity whatever
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting D. James
boast efficient time
We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.
boasting cold deaf devoid eats five man merely might perpetual proud sad taste tells
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
boast bring business customers profit project repeat
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
boast canada canadian committed fallen government number troops
But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions. Paul Ford
boast came favourite former jean lose man mayor money montreal olympics promise
My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.' Martin O'Malley
boast invented june night
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.
boast game good lost maybe saw seed underdog west
I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.