I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.
The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.
To say yes, commit herself to him, and then have to watch him recoil when he found out the extent of her inadequacy? Unbearable! He would learn what she was really like, and the knowledge would kill his love for her. Unbearable to say yes, and end in being rebuffed for all time. Far better to do any rebuffing herself.
This person will be proud of you because you make them so proud of themselves.
I don't think it's good to never get angry. Just like about the other 7 sins, right? If someone didn’t have any pride, wouldn’t they also be lacking in self-confidence? If someone was free of greed, wouldn’t they have trouble supporting their family? And if people didn’t envy one another, wouldn’t they stop inventing new things?
A killer normally commits twenty errors, but is only aware of a third of them. Most of them are due to carelessness or inexperience. But there's one type of error that we can consider deliberate. It's a sort of signature. "The devil's dumbest sin is vanity". But where's the fun in being the devil if you can't let anyone else know?
I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.
A man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with—though some of them paid the fact a cautious lip — service.
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