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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.
proved
We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe. Lee Hamilton
proved restaurant system unified
ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff. Thomas Keller
proved
I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions. Ewen Bremner
proved though
When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few. William Davis
proved though
When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.
proved voice
More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.
proved
If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise. Gerry Harvey
proved
I think I proved that I'm the number-one pick. Reggie Bush
proved
I think I proved myself up here and I want to stay. I think I can play everyday, but it's up to the manager.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
wrong-person persons
Fear is just faith in the wrong person. Bill Johnson
wrong-person persons better-off
You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person. Cat Deeley
wrong
We were as wrong as you could get.
wrong-time right-thing
There is no wrong time to do the right thing. Charles M. Blow
wrong-road
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one. Bob Parsons
wrong
With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it. Douglas Brinkley
wrong-number phones numbers
He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said. Anthony Horowitz
wrong-things
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. Dean Koontz
wrong-things
Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. Ashleigh Brilliant