When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineTags: happiness independence government perfection constitution boast perfect-government
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
Tags: humor dance courage dragons funny kill boast duck small martin prove soiaf tyrion
The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
Markesa YeagerTags: boastfulness boast boasting
What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as if it were your own?
AnonymousTags: boast ownership bible-verse
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
Richard Paul EvansTags: pride honor humble battle boast brag
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: nobility boast vain brag useless-talents lazyness high-class-style house-of-the-seven-gables
The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.
Israelmore AyivorTags: success purpose vision plans jealousy failure destiny greed ego visions fall food-for-thought sweet fail boast jealous pure great nice fine clear brag ready back ripe file prepared bad-attitude israelmore-ayivor jealousness clarify clearer clearest grade grediness pompus purer purest ripen unhealthy-ego
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
Frank McCourtTags: recognition credit boast acknowledgement bragging acclaim merit
Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: boast boasting bragging richelle richelle-goodrich
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
Max LucadoTags: christianity god faith arrogance christian boast boasting god-s-love
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