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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.
lust disease destructive
There is no disease so destructive as lust. Chanakya
lust underwear wipe
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties? Brad Meltzer
lust depraved
No one every suddenly became depraved. Juvenal
lust gold nuggets
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back. Ava Gardner
lust rewards able
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them. Baruch Spinoza
lust wickedness
Wickedness is nourished by lust. Aristotle
lust weakness rooted
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. Erich Fromm
lust age very-strong
From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill... Agatha Christie
lust desire whispering
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. C. S. Lewis
sloth laziness virtue
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
sloth unreliability answers
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. Charlie Munger
sloth laziness easy
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Benjamin Franklin
sloth overcoming diligence
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
sloth laziness hard
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. William Shakespeare
sloth lazy agnostic
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Conor Cruise O'Brien
sloth heroic enterprise
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. Edward Abbey
sloth paradise laziness
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott
sloth apes court
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!