A Quote by Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Saint Augustine

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Arrogance Big Greatness Healthy Seems Swelling

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Saint Augustine
Roman - Saint
354 - 430

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Mark Twain

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pineapple reduces swelling.

Olivia Culpo

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

Jeremy Collier

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

Bayard Taylor

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

Brian Greene

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

Stephen Colbert

I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

Gabriel Iglesias

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

Ben Jonson

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

Patrick Ewing

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

Josh Hawley

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Dante Alighieri

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.