Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Nature Quotes, Conceited Quotes

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Conceited Quotes , Done Quotes

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Encouraging Quotes , Conceited Quotes

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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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 half my sum of wealth.

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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Fear Quotes , Conceited Quotes

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

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These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Conceited Quotes , Men Quotes

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

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