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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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?
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
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.
She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing read more
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
