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Quotes about pride
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Cruise Tom)
Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Cruise Tom)
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. (Cruise Tom)
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Cruise Tom)
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I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round! (Cruise Tom)
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. (Cruise Tom)
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. (Cruise Tom)
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. (Cruise Tom)
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. (Cruise Tom)
It is my PRIDE, my damn d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 --20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative! (Cruise Tom)
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. (Cruise Tom)
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. (Cruise Tom)
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. (Cruise Tom)
There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. (Cruise Tom)
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. (Cruise Tom)
Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Cruise Tom)
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. (Cruise Tom)
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. (Cruise Tom)
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Cruise Tom)
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. (Cruise Tom)
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. (Cruise Tom)
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. (Cruise Tom)
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. (Cruise Tom)
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up. (Cruise Tom)
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. (Cruise Tom)
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