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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish read more
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow read more
Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.
Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
