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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.
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 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.
pride titles would-be
Charles Caleb Colton The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.
pride proud ancestry
Charles Caleb Colton It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
world would-be birth
Alan Watts Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
world marvelous
Alan Watts The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Alan Watts Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Alan Price Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
world save-the-world please
Alan Moore Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
world clock made
Alan Moore Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
Alan Moore One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Alan Jackson Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
world
Alan Bean I have the nicest life in the world.
doe authorship command
Charles Caleb Colton That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
Charles Spurgeon If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
Charles Spurgeon If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe lines matter
Chris Bohjalian But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?
doe absence
Chris Alexander Absence of failure does not constitute success.
doe happy-endings
Chita Rivera A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
doe chiefs
Chinua Achebe A chief does not hurry.
doe
Edith Piaf Death does not exist.
doe too-much
Edith Wharton Everybody who does anything at all does too much.