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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever read more
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Conceit is God's gift to little men
Conceit is God's gift to little men
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.