Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations quotes
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Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
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Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse, line 161.
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Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris, IV. 4. 120.
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Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
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William Knox, Mortality (Lincoln's favorite hymn).
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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 glowFor others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Alexander Pope, Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717), line 4.
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Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
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Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent (1703), Act V, scene 1, line 37. Taken from Massinger's Fatal Dowry.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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John Ruskin, True and Beautiful, Morals and Religion, Conception of God, p. 426.
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The Lords of creation men we call.
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Lords of Creation; attributed by Hoyt's to Emily Anne Shuldham; reported as a folk song of unknown authorship in Songs of Ireland and Other Lands (1847), volume 2, p. 253.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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Solomon, Proverbs, XVI. 18.