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    Pride is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself". The Oxford dictionary defines...
    42 KB (4,757 words) - 17:25, 20 November 2024
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    the teachings of Christianity. According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins in Christianity are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and...
    33 KB (3,629 words) - 05:20, 19 November 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....
    46 KB (5,423 words) - 22:51, 23 November 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) - 15:21, 11 November 2024
  • 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) - 16:48, 9 November 2024
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    Spinoza's Ethics (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 (6,010 words) - 18:45, 22 November 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) - 02:50, 31 October 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 (7,175 words) - 02:52, 23 November 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 (9,374 words) - 04:41, 28 August 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) - 03:04, 22 October 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...
    52 KB (6,504 words) - 04:14, 26 November 2024
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    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
  • 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) - 01:18, 27 October 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 (2,021 words) - 10:23, 19 November 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...
    86 KB (10,020 words) - 02:28, 14 November 2024
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    the documentary due to the service not permitting content that promotes "hate, violence, or harassment towards others and/or oneself". Walsh denied that...
    80 KB (6,999 words) - 17:11, 18 November 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) - 06:24, 29 September 2024
  • something of less significance and often indistinguishable, the satirical use of the term Kharkhuwa addressing a fellow native Assamese or on oneself...
    5 KB (753 words) - 20:51, 6 November 2024
  • Omorashi (Japanese: おもらし / オモラシ / お漏らし, "to wet oneself"), sometimes abbreviated as simply "omo", is a form of fetish subculture first categorized and...
    31 KB (3,558 words) - 12:17, 10 November 2024
  • to be impossible, however, stating that "one must be reduced to the two modes written above—that is, either distance oneself from or to bind oneself to...
    70 KB (10,431 words) - 03:08, 8 November 2024
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