"We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God."

Unknown, Source on loneliness
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."

Walker, Alice on loneliness   

"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Wolfe, Thomas on loneliness
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"See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]"

Bible on conceit
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"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."

Bowen, Elizabeth on conceit   

"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."

Eliot, George on conceit   

"It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care."

Eliot, George on conceit   

"Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Forman, Max L. on conceit
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"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on conceit
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"Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you."

Proverb, African on conceit   

"Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest."

Shakespeare, William on conceit
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"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

Thackeray, William M. on conceit
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on conceit
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

Truman, Harry S on conceit
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"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."

Unitas, Johnny on conceit   

"Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it."

Unknown, Source on conceit
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"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on vanity   

"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."

Cervantes, Miguel De on vanity
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"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing."

Karsh, Yousef on vanity   

"Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge."

Murdoch, Iris on vanity
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"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

Ruskin, John on vanity
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

Shakespeare, William on vanity   

"Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on vanity   

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."

Swift, Jonathan on vanity   

"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."

Unamuno, Miguel De on vanity   

"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."

Allen, Fred A. on pride
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"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."

Bernanos, Georges on pride
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"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble [James 4:6]"

Bible on pride
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"I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. [Luke 16:3]"

Bible on pride   

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Bronte, Emily on pride
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"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."

Colton, Charles Caleb on pride
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"There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself."

Eliot, George on pride   

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on pride
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"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up."

Jackson, Jesse on pride
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"Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold."

Jefferson, Thomas on pride   

"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on pride
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"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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