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Pride Quotes by Saint Augustine
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
- Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride…
- Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is…
- There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
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- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
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