“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Commenting on Gen. 1:26; why does it say "Let us make man"?
Commentary on Genesis
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
He said, "By Allah, this world has less value with Allah than this has with you." <br class="br">Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, 464 https://bewley.virtualave.net/riyad3.html <br class="br">Sunni Hadith
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
1810s
Source: A Vision of the Last Judgment
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. V
Richard Baxter book A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1