Fondare 190 Risultati per: Pride
Pride will come low; honour awaits the humble. (Proverbs 29, 23)
The old king, that had an immemorial line of ancestors;✻ and now posterity shall take no pride in him! All is frustration, and labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 4, 16)
While thou art young, take thy fill of manhood’s pride, let thy heart beat high with youth, follow where thought leads and inclination beckons, but remember that for all this God will call thee to account. (Ecclesiastes 11, 9)
Draw me after thee where thou wilt; see, we hasten after thee, by the very fragrance of those perfumes allured! To his own bower the king has brought me; he is our pride and boast, on his embrace, more ravishing than wine, our thoughts shall linger. They love truly that know thy love. (Song of Solomon 1, 3)
they themselves, doomed to lie there dishonoured among the dead, eternally a laughing-stock! How they will stand aghast, when he pricks the bubble of their pride!✻ Ruins they shall be, overthrown from the foundation, land for ever parched dry; bitter torment shall be theirs, and their name shall perish irrecoverably. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 19)
What advantage has it brought us, all our pomp and pride? How are we the better for all our vaunted wealth? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 8)
And what marvel? At the beginning of all, when the giants perished in their pride, was not such a barque the refuge of all the world’s hopes? Yet thy hand was at the helm, and the seed of life was saved for posterity. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
To fear the Lord is man’s pride and boast, is joy, is a prize proudly worn; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 11)
To the common sort of men give friendly welcome; before an elder abate thy pride; and to a man of eminence bow meekly thy head. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 7)
Before God and man alike pride is hateful, and the wrong the Gentiles do is foully done; (Ecclesiasticus 10, 7)
but worse sin is none than avarice. See how man, for all his pride, is but dust and ashes! (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)
Pride’s beginning is man’s revolt from God, (Ecclesiasticus 10, 14)
