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What the weak head with strongest bias rules,Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 203.
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Whatever Nature has in worth denied,She gives in large recruits of needful Pride.
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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 205.
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Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence,And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 209.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.Aspiring to be Gods if Angels fell,Aspiring to be Angels men rebel.
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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 123-124.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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Proverbs 16:18 (King James Version).