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Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear. Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny dagger-thrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside. Without that breast-plate the sword of talent cannot force its way through the battle of life, for blows have to be borne as well as dealt. I do not, of course, speak of the conceit that displays itself in an elevated nose and a falsetto voice.
He saw the peculiarly deluding and cruel substitution of forms for the substance of piety that distinguishes the policy of all established churches, though, unlike many of his own countrymen, his mind was superior to those narrow exaggerations that, on the other hand, too often convert innocence into sin, and puff up the votary with the conceit of a sectarian and his self-righteousness.
'He never pardoned, writes Professor Blochmann, 'pride and conceit in a man, and of all kinds of conceit, the conceit of learning was most hateful to him. Hence the cry of the class affected by his action that he discouraged learning and learned men. He did nothing of the sort. There never has flourished in India a more generous encourager of the real thing.
But his estimate and understanding were fairer than Ruth's, for the reason that he could come nearer to giving the young man his due. He knew that William Pressley was honest and sincere in his vanity and conceit, and was assured that these traits were the worst he possessed.
And how other fellows will have to take theirs, these fellows Weedie's gulling and Addington, because it's a fool wrapped up in its own conceit and stroking the lion's cub till it's grown big enough to eat us." He got up and Lydia called to him: "What is the lion's cub?" "Why, it's the people. And Weedon Moore is showing it how hungry it is by chucking the raw meat at it and the saucers of blood.
He continued, in a tone a little more elevated: "I can not think of a woman who takes care to deck herself every day, without meditating on the great lesson which she gives to artists. She dresses for a few hours, and the care she has taken is not lost. We must, like her, ornament life without thinking of the future. To paint, carve, or write for posterity is only the silliness of conceit."
His persons, however distressed, HAVE A CONCEIT LEFT THEM IN THEIR MISERY, A MISERABLE CONCEIT. ACT II. SCENE ii. It is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions, As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. This is not the remark of a weak man. The vice of age is too much suspicion.
That's what she's done, single handed, in two months, and she has no more conceit of her work than a ray of God's sunshine has when it's opening a flower bud." Julia Evringham's gaze was fixed intently upon the speaker, and she was unconscious that two tears rolled down her cheeks. "You've made us very happy, telling us this," she said, rather breathlessly, as the housekeeper paused.
Finally, a Board of Aldermen and a Common Council. "Is that all?" says his Royal Highness. They said it was. "Then," says he, "take it, mes enfants, and bless you!" So, all went well again. The toy sovereignty began to rattle around in its own conceit, the "people" regarded themselves, and wished to be regarded, as a chartered Democracy.
"A pity, then," said one of the knights to the others, "that he had not given that accolade to himself, instead of to the bear." "Unless some means are found," said another, "of taking down this boy's conceit, life will soon be not worth having here." "Either he must take ship," said a third, "and look for adventures elsewhere, or I must."
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