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title: "5 Pride Destroys Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-steele/pride-destroys-all-symmetry-and-grace-and-affectation-is-a-more/)

[Richard Steele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-steele/)

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> [“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randy-alcorn/when-we-become-proud-we-operate-outside-the-grace-god-only-gives-to/)

[Randy Alcorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randy-alcorn/)

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> [Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/pride-is-the-king-of-vices-it-is-the-first-of-the-pallbearers-of-the/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [“Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matshona-dhliwayo/pride-destroys-a-man-quicker-than-ignorance/)

[Matshona Dhliwayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matshona-dhliwayo/)

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> [At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ortberg/at-the-deepest-level-pride-is-the-choice-to-exclude-both-god-and/)

[John Ortberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ortberg/)

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