Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Interpretation
Pride can blind us to our own flaws while making us overly critical of others.
This quote by Samuel Johnson suggests that pride is a negative trait that often leads individuals to see faults in others while failing to recognize their own imperfections. It emphasizes the tendency of people to project their shortcomings onto those around them, thus creating a cycle of judgment and self-deception fueled by an inflated sense of self-worth.
In practice
In a discussion about self-improvement, one might say, 'As Samuel Johnson wisely noted, pride can blind us to our own faults.'
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.
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