Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.
E.M. BoundsA lack of illusion is golden, and it is quite possible that creativity is the highest form of intelligence. One might further develop oneself in the creative sense and, therefore, at times, find some degree of shame more so than pride when having always followed that of the safe and ever-praised academia.
Criss JamiTags: intelligence learning college humility creativity genius shame brain pride development
Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
E.M. BoundsBecause he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.
Yōko OgawaThus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
E.A. BucchianeriTags: ambition pride faust marlowe christopher-marlowe faustus faust-legend faustian icarus
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Tags: death death-and-dying pride wretch walter-scott
إن الغرور جريمة علمية قبل أن يكون جريمة خلقية
محمد الغزاليTags: philosophy pride
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
P.D. JamesTags: love pride unhappiness couples
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
Lauren WilligTags: kindness love men pride goad
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.
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