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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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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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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
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