Remember, when the judgment's weak,
The prejudice is strong.
PRESENT (See Today) PRESENTS (See Generosity, Guts) PRESUMPTION
Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause.
Cowpbr—The Task. Bk. II. The Timepiece.
L. 231.
It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
152.
He will steal himself into a man's favour and
for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but
when you find him out. you have him ever after.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 6.
L. 97.
How dare the plants look up to heaven, from
whence
They have their nourishment?
Pericles. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 55.
PRIDE
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As proud as Lucifer.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Country Town.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it;
I like to be despised.
Bickebstafp—The Hypocrite. Act V. Sc. 1.
They are proud in humility, proud in that
they are not proud.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
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II. Memb. 3. Subsect. 14.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
George Chapman—Eastward Ho. Act III.
Sc. 1. (Written by Chapman, Jonson, and
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| text = <poem>Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Lord of human kind.
Dryden—Spanish Friar. Act II. Sc. 1.
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
Goethe—Iphigenia auf Tauris. IV. 4. 120.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = The Traveller. L. 327.
| seealso = (See also Dryden)
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Wm. Knox—Mortality. (Lincoln's favorite
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| text = <poem>What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Criticism. L. 203.
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 124
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.
| author = Pope
| work = Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. L. 4.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty
spirit before a falL
Proverbs. XVI. 18.
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Nicholas Rowe—The Fair Penitent. Act V.
Sc. 1. L. 37. Taken from Massinger's
Fatal Dowry.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great
mistakes.
Rttsjon—True and Beautiful. Morals and ReConception of God. P. 426.
Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 70.
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 24.
She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 83.
- I have ventur"d,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 358.
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his
own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 164.
I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 169.
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Cry "No recovery." Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 187
