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~ Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter! ~

Aeschylus

~ The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. ~

Kin Hubbard

~ Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. ~

Unknown

~ The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. ~

William Blake

~ It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ~

Unknown

~ Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone ~

Egyptian Proverb

~ Pride is the mask we make of our faults ~

Hebrew Proverb

~ Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground ~

Spanish Proverb

~ In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ~

Ruskin, John

~ Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~

Mark Twain

~ As soon as there was two there was pride ~

John Donne

~ Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. ~

Jules Renard

~ Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent. ~

Bill Clinton

~ The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise ~

William Shakespeare

~ Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride. ~

Cybil Shepherd

~ Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. ~

Alain Rene Lesage

~ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ~

Jane Austen

~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~

Mark Twain

~ Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride. ~

Joanna Baillie

~ Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. ~

Hugh Blair

~ Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone ~

Egyptian Proverb

~ Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone ~

Egyptian Proverb

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