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pride men becoming
Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Charles Caleb Colton Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride cutting animal
Charles Caleb Colton The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
pride self vanity
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
cutting giving wealth
Charles Caleb Colton Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
cutting lions teeth
Charles Caleb Colton He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
cutting men turkeys
Charles Dickens It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
cutting garden weather
Charles Dickens In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
cutting popularity minutes
Charles Stanley I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.
cutting stones firsts
Charles Spurgeon Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
cutting scripture ifs
Charles Spurgeon If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
cutting years bangs
Alan Watts Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.
cutting light knives
Alan Watts The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
animal safety giving
Charles Caleb Colton Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.
animal mind facts
Charles Dickens You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
animal lions sulky
Charles Dickens Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
animal lust use
Alan Watts ...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
animal envy simplicity
Alan Watts At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
animal technology vegetables
Alan Watts "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."
animal acting kind
Alan Rickman I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
animal rocks rock-n-roll
Al Jourgensen Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
animal essence abuse
Aiden Wilson Tozer The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.