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 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. 
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
 All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
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 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
 All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
   Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with read more
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
 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? 
 He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
 Cry 'No recovery.'  
 He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
 Cry 'No recovery.' 
 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. 
 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.] 
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does read more
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.