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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man´s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest biass rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny´d, She gives in large recruits of needful pride; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell´d with wind: Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense! If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks on us with resistless day; Trust not your self; but your defects to know, Make use of ev´ry friend - and ev´re foe.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), from An Essay on Criticism |
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