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Pride frustrates its own desire; it will not mount the steps
of the throne, because it has not yet the crown on.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Psalms 138:6
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
his way.
Psa 25:9
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:11
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Prov 26:12
True dignity abides with him only, who, in the silent hour of
inward thought, can still suspect, and still revere himself, in
lowliness of heart.
Wordsworth
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the
proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none
but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor
strength, nor reason can prevail.
Quarles
True humility makes way for Christ, and throws the soul at his
feet.
J. Mason
"Pride was not made for man"; a conscious sense of guilt and
folly, and their consequence, destroys the claim, and to
beholders tells, here nothing but the shape of manhood dwells.
Waller
Pride often defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks
esteem and reverence, into contempt.
Bolingbroke
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
Cowper
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow
very closely.
Louis the Eleventh
You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your
calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or
are proud of your wealth.
Thackeray
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it
is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the
soul.
Tupper