Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]

Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice. [ Proverb ]

Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding. [ Steele ]

Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. [ T. D. English ]

Love is blind: that is why he always proceeds by the sense of touch.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. [ Bruyere ]

The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. [ Swift ]

The mind has its arrangement: it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. [ Pascal ]

The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful, and the true. [ George Sand ]

Confidence, as opposed to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. [ Horace Mann ]

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]