Quotes with conceits

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• Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
  Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
  But with a little act upon the blood.
  Burn like the mines of Sulphur.

  Othello 3, 3

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

  Tennessee Williams
  American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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• Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

  M. Drayton
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disservice
• germinated
• distaste
• universe
• vanities
• greatest

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