’T is pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul;
  I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Cato, Act i.  Sc. 4.  J. ADDISON.

  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.
Essay on Criticism, Pt.  II.  A. POPE.

  Where wavering man, betrayed by venturous pride
  To chase the dreary paths without a guide. 
  As treacherous phantoms in the mist delude,
  Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.
The Vanity of Human Wishes.  DR. S. JOHNSON.

  Pride (of all others the most dang’rous fault)
  Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought.
Essay on Translated Verse.  W. DILLON.

Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.
The Chameleon.  J. MERRICK.

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Cymbeline, Act iii.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

Ask for whose use the heavenly bodies shine;
Earth for whose use?  Pride answers,
’T is for mine!
Essay on Man, Pt.  I.  A. POPE.

PROGRESS.

From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature’s text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.
Festina Lente.  J.R.  LOWELL.

Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beast’s;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
A Death in the Desert.  R. BROWNING.

                          Progress is
  The law of life, man is not
  Man as yet.
Paracelsus, Pt.  V.  R. BROWNING.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, “Am I your debtor?”
And the Lord—­“Not yet:  but make it as clean as you can,
And then I will let you a better.”
By an Evolutionist.  A. TENNYSON.

  Eternal process moving on,
    From state to state the spirit moves.
In Memoriam, LXXXIII.  A. TENNYSON.

PROMISE.

Promise is most given when the least is said. Musoeus of Hero and Leander.  G. CHAPMAN.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping. Measure for Measure, Act i.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

  And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
  That palter with us in a double sense;
  That keep the word of promise to our ear,
  And break it to our hope.
Macbeth, Act v.  Sc. 7.  SHAKESPEARE.

  His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
  But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
King Henry VIII., Act iv.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

There buds the promise of celestial worth. The Last Day, Bk.  III.  DR. E. YOUNG.

  Thy promises are like Adonis’ gardens
  That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
King Henry VI., Pt.  I. Act i.  Sc. 6.  SHAKESPEARE.