--WHIPPLE.
PRETENSION.--It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing
demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what
they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated
by others.--WHATELY.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never
pretends.--LAVATER.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop
window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it
within.--SPURGEON.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions
fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.--CICERO.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake,
or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but
extremely troublesome and vexatious.--PLUTARCH.
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of
impotence.--LAVATER.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
--LAVATER.
PRIDE.--Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and
immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their
pride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet.
--CLARENDON.
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.--LOWELL.
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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