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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.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
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?
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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.
These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more
These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
