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| Pride (1) | ||
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| PRIDE (1) Definition: [ ~ (in something/in doing something) ] A feeling of pleasure or satisfaction that you get when you or people who are connected with you have done something well or own something that other people admire. ______________________________________________________________________ * All ten elements should be in. 1. Purposeful (?), even if others think it unnecessary. 2. Whole. That is, feeling is genuine, not fake or tainted with a doubt, jealousy, etc. 3. Feeling has a limit or is controllable. That is, not a pleasure or satisfaction that will lead to being overexcited and possibly, subsequent 'trouble' for the possessor or achiever. ___________________________________________ Quote: "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals". - Fulton J. Sheen. | ||
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| 4. Achievement or possession is excellent. That is, properly obtained with true, sole or collaborative efforts, not combined with an illegality, etc. 5. Achievement or possession is really 'special' in your opinion or in the opinion of the admirers. In other words, source or object is not easy to come by. 6.Feeling is not pushed into the faces of other people. ____________________ DOES NOT GO ... Quotation: "Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages". - Samuel Johnson. further below the line 7. Achievement or possession lasts for duration hoped for, not a fleeting moment. 8. Feeling has a lifespan, even if it is for minutes or a lifetime (connect to #7). 9. Thing is completely and correctly done or fully and legally owned. _________________________ THERE IS NO 'FALL'. Quote: "There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so". - Charles Caleb Colton. much further below the line 9. Achievement is defensible or possession is accessible for admiration. In other words, thing owned can be proudly and/or appropriately displayed, and achievement, if necessary, repeated. __________________________________ APPROPRIATE, JUSTIFIABLE, ... Quotation: "To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak". - Jean Baptiste Masillon. 10. Feeling, that is, pride serves some purpose(s) - happiness, stepping stone, etc., etc. ___________________________ * NOT FOOLISH PRIDE. Quote: "The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great". - Voltaire. |
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