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Conceit is incompatible with understanding
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
