“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”
Source: Small Great Things
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Source: The Lover's Dictionary
"But this must transcend even national borders and extend to humanity because if ideas be only for the prosperity of your country, it would end where it began, by being a prophet to your own community and very probably to your own self.
In another lecture in Madras now (Chennai) quoted in "Selected Letters, Gandhi -Sarojini Naidu Correspondence, Preface".
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 234.
Variant: When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
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