 In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...  Saint Ignatius Loyola: The Pilgrim Years 1491-1538 - Page 188by James Brodrick - 1956 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language: and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. "In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | 1915 - 1252 pages
...Franklin endeavored to cultivate humility. He did not succeed, and, in his Autobiography, he tells us : "In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 pages
...the coats of an onion; if you pull off one there is another underneath.45 Franklin knew this, too: "In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Harry Roberts - 2010 - 198 pages
...ingredient of a personal quality checklist even for business. Franklin also found humility to be hard: "In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. . . . Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 pages
...Hesitation in my choice of Words, hardly correct in Language, and yet I generally carried my Points. — In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 pages
...rather insolent." Despite his efforts to develop humility, however, his pride remained recalcitrant. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Peter Michaelson - 1999 - 228 pages
...with the most pride in their humility. "In reality," Benjamin Franklin wrote in The Autobiography, "there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride." As for humility, he added, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue,... | |
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