A Quote by Joseph Addison

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Joseph Addison

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Before Destruction Fall Goes Haughty Pride Spirit

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Joseph Addison
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May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

Pride goes before destruction.

Aesop

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

William Arthur Ward

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Richelle Mead

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

David Myers

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

Sufjan Stevens

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Wil Wheaton

[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?

Laurel Nakadate

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

Maya Angelou

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

Malcolm X

The animal creation shall again gladden a new Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called them by name, and carressed them and mingled in their society. The Bible everywhere indicates that the new earth will be a counterpart of the old before the fall, so we must conclude that lower animals who were created before man and have been his companions before and since the fall will be restored with him in the "new Creation"

Ed Buckner

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