--POPE.
It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our
neighbors.--CLARENDON.
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are
included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.
--ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
Some people are proud of their humility.--BEECHER.
Pride requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness.--COLTON.
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
--ROSCOMMON.
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action
done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the
bottom of it.--STERNE.
There is this paradox in pride,--it makes some men ridiculous, but
prevents others from becoming so.--COLTON.
In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to
subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it
as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then
peep out and show itself.--FRANKLIN.
Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached
a place from which they fell!--JOAQUIN MILLER.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with
infamy.--FRANKLIN.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
--PROVERBS 16:18.
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the
proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
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