We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.
GEORGE ELLIOT, Middlemarch (Vintage Classics, 2007), Pg 60
It is easy for me to eschew pride for want of humbler virtues. Life affirms this: I can still vividly trace many of my failures to pride, to how I blinded myself by thinking that I was already good enough.
And yet, I cannot help but wonder now if seeking the other extreme has led me to commit the crime I have struggled to avoid all this while.
Like they all say, pride does come before a fall.
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