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    Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself". Oxford defines it as "the quality of having...
    42 KB (4,722 words) - 11:28, 16 May 2024
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    teachings. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth, which are contrary to the seven heavenly virtues...
    35 KB (4,006 words) - 18:16, 7 June 2024
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    appreciation of oneself, one's talents, skills, and virtues. It is not meekness or self-deprecating thought, but the effacing of oneself to something higher....
    45 KB (5,343 words) - 06:57, 19 May 2024
  • Something of the meaning is perhaps conveyed through the following quotations from Guru Nanak: 'The real asses are those who are full of self-pride but...
    7 KB (865 words) - 18:24, 19 April 2024
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    Ethics (Spinoza book) (category Articles that link to foreign-language Wikisources)
    substance would have to exist to take up the remaining parts of its finite attributes, something which is impossible according to an earlier proposition...
    49 KB (6,003 words) - 01:26, 6 May 2024
  • Know thyself (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    not possible to infer from this what sort of task "knowing oneself" was understood to be, except that it was something extremely difficult to accomplish...
    52 KB (7,176 words) - 05:24, 24 March 2024
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    (79:40–41). Junayd of Baghdad likened the process of overcoming the nafs to "dying to oneself and becoming resurrected in one-Self (God)". Muhammad said that "The...
    18 KB (2,147 words) - 16:50, 6 June 2024
  • Orthodox Christian term referring to a false spiritual state of holiness or a spiritual illness of believing oneself less sinful than one is. Prelest should...
    61 KB (8,873 words) - 10:43, 18 May 2024
  • examples of space opera, with ship-to-ship shooting minimized in favor of coercion, manipulation, politics, pride contests, and clashing economic interests...
    24 KB (3,388 words) - 13:27, 18 April 2023
  • equality of mankind as it begets one to think highly of oneself and view others as inferior to them. Pride leads one to forget that everything they have is...
    11 KB (1,649 words) - 18:24, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for A Treatise of Human Nature
    chiefly admired for the "well-regulated pride" they embody. Indeed, though excessive pride is harmful to oneself (even when courteously concealed from others)...
    117 KB (17,443 words) - 13:54, 16 February 2024
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    "divine pride", which is "the thought that one is oneself the deity being visualized." Divine pride is different from common pride because it is based on compassion...
    67 KB (9,353 words) - 21:05, 27 March 2024
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    from oneself). Shame may carry the connotation of a response to something that is morally wrong whereas embarrassment is the response to something that...
    50 KB (6,367 words) - 13:29, 7 June 2024
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    "civilization has yet to begin." He defined good will as "the desire to have something else stronger and more beautiful, for this desire makes oneself stronger and...
    55 KB (8,216 words) - 20:30, 29 March 2024
  • after a firm intention to kill oneself has been formed. The Ridiculous Man thoughtlessly shuns the little girl because, due to his impending suicide,...
    12 KB (1,901 words) - 07:59, 4 May 2024
  • Love (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, oneself, or animals...
    85 KB (10,163 words) - 05:49, 5 June 2024
  • phase is the phase of "knowing oneself," and the realization emerges that one is sexually and emotionally attracted to members of one's own sex. This...
    37 KB (3,772 words) - 04:03, 17 May 2024
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    Figure of speech (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    using the pronoun we to refer to oneself when expressing a personal opinion. Non sequitur: statement that bears no relationship to the context preceding...
    25 KB (3,013 words) - 13:47, 4 May 2024
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    earlier attested singular "bee's knee" used to refer to something small or insignificant. Alludes to burning oil to produce light in the time before electric...
    43 KB (1,995 words) - 15:24, 1 June 2024
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    By extension, outing oneself is self-disclosure. Glass closet refers to the open secret of a public figure widely thought to be LGBT even though the...
    78 KB (8,842 words) - 08:04, 26 May 2024
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