Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Pride
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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Where pride begins, love ceases.
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Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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