Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.