PRIDE.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.—Proverbs, xvi. 5.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs, xvi. 18.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.—Ecclesiastes, vii. 8.
The day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty.—Isaiah, ii. 12.
Small things make base men proud.
Shakspere.
When grief, that well might humble, swells our pride,
And pride increasing aggravates our grief,
The tempest must prevail till we are lost.
Lillo.
Though, various foes against the truth combine,
Pride, above all, opposes her design;
Pride, of a growth superior to the rest,
The subtlest serpent, with the loftiest crest,
Swells at the thought, and, kindling into rage,
Would hiss the cherub Mercy from the stage.
Cowper.
Pride, self-adoring pride, was primal cause
Of all sin past, all pain, all woe to come.
Pollok.
Hate, unbelief, and blasphemy of God,
Envy and slender, malice and revenge,
And murder and deceit, and every birth
Of damned sort, were progeny of pride.
Pollok.
What if his very virtues
Had pampered his swol’n heart, and made him proud?
And what if pride had duped him into guilt?
Coleridge.
If thou be one whose heart the holy form
Of young imagination hath kept pure,
Stranger! henceforth be warn’d, and know that pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used, that thought with him
Is in its infancy.
Wordsworth.