The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.