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Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
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?
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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,
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
