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«Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.»
Author: Jefferson Davis | Keywords: haughty
«Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.»
Author: Wessenberg, Baron | Keywords: haughty, moderate
«Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | About: Age, Elderly | Keywords: Delicious, flowing, haughty
«In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: haughty, Pride and
«Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: haughty, lofty
«Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: / Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.»
«None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: haughty, raised
«No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: architecture, haughty
«Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Pride | Keywords: haughty
«Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire»