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Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot read more
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
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.
I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea read more
I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.