Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)