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QUOTATIONS ON PRIDE

Pride is the only disease known to man that makes everyone sick except the one who has it. - "Uncle" Bud Robinson

It is out of self-love that all other evil passions spring. - Alexander Whyte

Pride is the ground in which all other sins grow. - William Barkley

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. - Benjamin Whichcote

A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. - Anonymous

An egoist is someone who is always me-deep in conversation. - Milton Berle

Did you notice how we shook that bridge? - a flea to the elephant he was riding after crossing an old bridge. (Nelson's "Someone Once Said" p. 633)

(From a sermon by Scott Carroll, The Disease of "Me" 5/9/2011)

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