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Pride Quotes by George Eliot
- There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
- The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
- You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you…
- One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
- We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
- Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
- How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
- Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
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