--HAZLITT.
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than
others.--CHARRON.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless,
but impairs what it would improve.--POPE.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a
fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation
of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false
appreciation of their own strength.--COLTON.
We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is
like us--he is thinking of himself.--CHARLES READE.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool
than of him.--PROVERBS 26:12.
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great
to him.--MADAME DE GIRARDIN.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the
job.--H.W. SHAW.
Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's
own making.--ADDISON.
He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of
impotence.--LAVATER.
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another
talked of.--LAVATER.
CONDUCT.--I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the whole
world were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does it
signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is
the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?--SENECA.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their
professions.
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