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Pride Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
- Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
- Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
- Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
- Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
- The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being…
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him…
- Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names…
- Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter,…
- The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
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