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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
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.]
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts read more
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
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.
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.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts read more
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.