Alexander Pope on Pride
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“Whatever Nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful Pride.”
“What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
“Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.”
“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 glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
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