“ Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ”
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711). copy citation
| Author | Alexander Pope |
|---|---|
| Source | An Essay on Criticism |
| Topic | pride vice |
| Date | 1711 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7409/7409-h/7409-h.htm |
Context
“(That, on weak wings, from far pursues your flights,
Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) ,
To teach vain wits a science little known,
To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
PART II.
Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Whatever nature has in worth denied,
She gives in large recruits of needful pride;
For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find
What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind:
Pride where wit fails steps in to our defense,”
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