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Quotation from The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley
“But if men grow proud and self-willed, and misuse God’s fair gifts, He lets them go their own ways, and fall pitifully, that the glory may be His alone.”
The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Theseus, Part IV: How Theseus Fell by His Pride (Project Gutenberg #677 (1889 Macmillan edition))
The closing moral of the book, after Theseus's exile and death on Scuros.
Citation: "But if men grow proud and self-willed, and misuse God’s fair gifts, He lets them go their own ways, and fall pitifully, that the glory may be His alone." — Charles Kingsley, The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Theseus, Part IV: How Theseus Fell by His Pride (Project Gutenberg #677 (1889 Macmillan edition)). (id kingsley-the-heroes-q7)
Virtues: Humility
