Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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Unknown
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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John Ruskin
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love...
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Kahlil Gibran
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
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Jane Austen
More Quotes By Raheel Farooq
Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.
Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.
Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.
