"The more pride we have, the more..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us
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“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
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“An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?”
“The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.”
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
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“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.”
“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.”
“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”