An overweening pride in his own powers.
This pride obeys the will; and when the brain
Is mean and narrow, like a low-roofed dungeon,
And only keeps one image there confined—
The image of self—the heart soon yields its truth,
And makes this self its idol, aim, and end.
Such is the Haman pride that mars the man,
And makes the wise contemn and hate him too—
Hate and contemn the more, the more he prospers.
MARGRAVE.