You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close..., without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we have difficulties between soldiers, very slight and easily disposed of; but troubles between soldiers and the carpenters w...hose tools disappear mysteriously, and farmers in the neighborhood who go to bed with roosts of barnyard fowl and wake up chickenless and fowlless, are more troublesome.... Our men are fully equal to the famous Massachusetts men in a mechanical way. They build quarters, ditches, roads, traps; dig wells, catch fish, kill squirrels, etc., etc., and it is really a new sensation, the affection and pride one feels respecting such a body of men in the aggregate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And to your more bewitching, see the proud, Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,... Tempting the two too modest; can Ye see it brustle like a swan, And you be cold To meet it when it woos and seems to fold The arms to hug you? Throw, throw Yourselves into the mighty overflow Of that white pride, and drown The night with you in floods of down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Antifashion, a recurrent theme in the history of dress, was probably first taken up as a sign of status by the nobility, perhaps o...riginally out of necessity. Impoverished, threadbare noblemen could take pride in their lack of style while middle-class upstarts were deeply considering the cut of their coats. This strain in aristocratic style persists. The essential presumptuousness of fashion--its constant pushiness, its middle-class mobility--is one of the things that make people hate and fear it, especially very radical and conservative people. The constant dress-reform movements of the nineteenth century in England and America were attempts, in different modes, to resist and even to abolish fashion.... If elaborate fashion was the outward sign of bourgeois prosperity, antifashion had to be invented as a necessary means of indicating objections to existing social, economic, and sexual standards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of bot...h sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come then to prayers And kneel upon the stone,... For we have tried All courages on these despairs, And are required lastly to give up pride, And the last difficult pride in being humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt? Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile... Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside th...e other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I show my grandchildren, I have a wonderful feeling of pride. I say, "See that crane way, way up there? Grandma used to run a... crane like that during the war."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »