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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?
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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,
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained read more
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
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.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
