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1. Whether it is a direct result of the Element being back on Errd, though that is probably a spurious conceit on my part, the weather has taken a turn for the better, giving us a glorious Indian summer … at least that is the term used on Earth
2. The over-weening conceit which the greater part of men have of their own abilities, is an
3. This condition, which is generally the effect of the landlord's conceit of his own superior knowledge (a conceit in most cases very ill-founded), ought always to be considered as an additional rent, as a rent in service, instead of a rent in money
4. It was a personal conceit, given there were several others on the
5. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general
6. How marvelous also that a scientist of the caliber of this author has been able to deflate the conceit of an atheist who only coincidentally happens to be schooled in the scientific arena of ideas, but as I suspect, is just a different kind of believer
7. But always, some small germ of the truth conveyed, lay well hidden within this “haystack of Man’s conceit
8. conceit; before the destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility; he who answers the matter before hearing
9. is becoming wise from his own conceit
10. Do you see the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for the fool than for him
11. conceit than seven men who can apply the reasons
12. rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor who has understanding searches him out
13. 11 I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of great men
14. 6 The fruit declares if the tree has been dressed; so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man
15. “I wish for my husband’s conceit to come down a few notches and for him to listen to me for a change
16. what are they all in their high conceit
17. If this were not so then all of this would have been a foolish conceit and long ago would have come to nothing!”
18. He would invariably pay for this conceit by losing men and sometimes himself
19. If this were not so then all of this would have been a foolish conceit
20. Merely my conceit showing
21. ” Kaite out of the frame but you can tell she is a little sad in the conceit
22. When the wellspring of conceit finally dried, I confided that I was an architect from Melbourne, keen to see the Sunshine Coast design sensation which had astounded the architectural fraternity a few years previously
23. The price for such conceit was his life
24. are often those of conceit and self-glorification, and also of instinctive self-
25. succeed only if there is in the latter some subtle weakness, such as conceit,
26. But I observed a certain impertinence and conceit in his words, not toward me, but toward
27. 4 John Zebedee had many lovely traits of character, but one which was not so lovely was his inordinate but usually well-concealed conceit
28. This conceit was greatly lessened, but after growing old and becoming more or less childish, this self-esteem reappeared to a certain extent, so that, when engaged in directing Nathan in the writing of the Gospel which now bears his name, the aged apostle did not hesitate repeatedly to refer to himself as the "disciple whom Jesus loved
29. His greatest weakness was this characteristic conceit
30. Why blame the rich for their conceit when it is the making of the poor?”
31. I had seen the wrinkles of conceit affect the beauty of her soul and in the end she turned blind to the values that made her what she was
32. and will feel conceit
33. While overmuch self-respect may destroy proper humility and end in pride, conceit, and arrogance, the loss of self-respect often ends in paralysis of the will
34. Likewise, when the acknowledgment of our difficulties entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated prejudices, the average person prefers to cling to the old illusions of safety and to the long-cherished false feelings of security
35. Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds
36. Man's conceit often outruns his reason and eludes his logic
37. Conceit will have you thinking you know the road…
38. They must see in him all the principle elements of their mental life: grievances, agreements, disagreements, anger, deceit, conceit, myths and facts, interpretation, compatibility, guilt, paranoia, illusions and delusions – all wrapped (or warped) into one neat parcel
39. As Roopa gave him a searching look, Prasad smiled in all conceit
40. But obsessed as I was to keep Rajan’s memory out of her mind, I kept her in good humor regardless; and having brought her to that pass, I too fell into the trap of conceit
41. But what eye-openers the end chapters of the Gita were to me; what a vile creature I was, I came to realize from these verses - Make all vile, rude guys all / Vainglorious ’n haughty too / Besides being indignant / No less are they indulgent; Gives as virtue man freedom / Keeps him vileness in bondage; Pride ’n lust, long wish list / Vile in conceit live impure; Seeing life as one to gloat / Vile by impulse go to lengths; Seek vile creatures ever shortcuts / On way to wants, they ill-get wealth; Think all vile, in like terms- / This is mine so let me keep / Why not have I more of it, Foe this mine I’ve truly floored / Won’t I tackle the rest of them / Sure I’m Lord of mine own world; Note all vile, gloat as such – / Besides wealthy, I’m well-born / Won’t I give and enjoy too, To their hurt in illusion vile / End up slaves of joys of flesh
42. disinterest was mislabeled as conceit – and, maybe (on some level) I was conceited
43. ‘‘Though he may slay, the man who is liberated from conceit and
44. But they had drawn far from their provider with conceit until this bitter treatment became indispensable for them
45. Both of them were indomitable and brutal and displayed equal amounts of insolence and conceit
46. What is the meaning of the noble verse which came in this story through the Almighty's saying: "so, he (the devil) let them down with conceit
47. As for the word "with conceit", it does not intend our Master Adam, nay it means the devil himself as the conceit had engaged the devil's spirit not our Master Adam's (cpth)
48. In details we say: the conceit is a spiritual state prevails over man's spirit making him suppose a thing to be exited, whereas it is not in fact
49. Through this, it became clear to us that the devil could not deceive our Master Adam (cpth) or make him draw far from Al'lah, and that the meaning of the word "with conceit" describes the devil state when he imagined a thing, but the matters came in contrast with his supposition and he turned failing and disappointed
50. So, the devil let them down; that is, he brought them to the fruit with conceit; that is, he made them imagine that eating from the tree would cause them to remain in that elevated state of nearness to God perpetually, despite this being a lie
1. Stilts: If you are walking on stilts, it means that you are conceited and arrogant
2. How much more out of his mind must it have been to think that they might receive the same baptism of the Holy Spirit as he received! This is a proper view of the faith that keeps us from being conceited
3. Cyberia was quite possibly the most haughty, proud and conceited young lady to have ever shopped and lunched in the fabulously gold plated arcades and streets of London Town
4. was quite possibly the most haughty, proud and conceited young
5. conceited and congratulate themselves, whereas the penitents
6. Paul exhorted the Romans not to be ignorant and conceited
7. Do not be conceited, but fear;
8. The Greeks are conceited and think to be
9. In other respects, he commonly returns home more conceited, more unprincipled, more dissipated, and more incapable of my serious application, either to study or to business, than he could well have become in so short a time had he lived at home
10. Clare was conceited enough not to notice, but Esther was in love with someone else and then they both lost contact
11. Cloning is Humankind‘s crowning achievement that defines its (own) conceited self-centeredness!
12. This attitude is common among high-brow individuals who, inspired by their own (conceited) self-importance, are oftentimes likely to complicate simple matters for their (own) intended purposes of being ―misunderstood,‖ or for others, a cover-up for their ineptitude!
13. And that is a man who is conceited
14. stuck-up conceited ass, Ashi was sure
15. 5 My child be not a liar for lying leads to theft; be not covetous or conceited for from all these things thefts arise
16. Why are men so cocksure, so… conceited, so full of themselves?
17. I don't care how old you are!You're still a conceited little brat!"
18. She is capricious and conceited
19. Later, after sex, desperate to hear something positive the poor bloke will ask, “How was it for you?” to be greeted with ridicule for being so conceited as to ask for compliments
20. “Thin trousers, and doesn’t wear underpants… conceited cub
21. So I was conceited? Nothing looks more ridiculous than an underpants-line halfway up your bum
22. 2 Timothy 3:4 - treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
23. But Jesus said nothing which would proscribe self-analysis as a prevention of conceited egotism
24. I am not conceited to the point of feeling that I alone am responsible for this
25. Not suggested in a conceited sense, though without applying the contents of this module
26. The younger lad was cheerful and vivacious, but indolent and unreliable; the older son was steady and industrious, at the same time self-centered, surly, and conceited
27. Yah, I know that sounds conceited and believe me when I tell you that I don't judge anyone at any time or at the very least I try not to
28. “With one of those foolish, conceited young males?” Palomita asked, astonished
29. The guy was such a conceited weasel
30. "Conceited son of a bitch, he was
31. The Smug, in all its conceited glory, is just rising over the Hundred Boughs
32. I’m not trying to be conceited, but honesty is due
33. In general, humans have become too powerful and conceited
34. Brian apologized to Cynthia for being a conceited, snobby
35. Just his conceited wall of silence
36. Though her husband was rather a conceited buffoon, she was very charming, genuine, and gracious, much like an innocent child who had no suspicions or prejudices in the world
37. So he is that type after all, she concluded after noticing the conceited, overconfident grin on his face while they waltzed; the wife had been right about her husband, she could see that now and imagine how many other women he had attempted to charm in this same manner
38. He was quite sophisticated, or at least it seemed that way, but I took him for being conceited at having inherited his family fortune at such a young age
39. After all, we have many fine Belgian friends who are not conceited as you would have the inspector to believe
40. · A conceited sense of one’s superiority
41. “Coming back to the ill-fated girl, the cousin who rescued me from the embarrassment of my life I told you about, abhorred the eligible bachelor in equal measure for his conceited ways, was not prepared to voice her apprehension lest her dissent should be construed as an envy for the girl’s glorious fortune-in-the-making; well I too kept mum for I knew that I wouldn’t have been deemed as a viable alternative by the mother of the bride and so, sadly for others’ decency of silence and her mother’s blinkers of falsity, the daughter had to suffer him as her man to her lifelong dismay
42. “Well, Raju was not dumb to read my mind and so he steered clear of my course; but what if he had chosen to embarrass me by sticking to me on purpose? Won’t it make a strategy to hurt the jealous and the conceited by imposing ourselves upon them, never mind they cold-shoulder us? Well, he was too good a soul to resort to such a foul; but shortly after Anand came back on transfer, when Ruma advised him to keep away from his poor friend with no future to name, I had a full grasp of the complexities of the trap into which I willy-nilly pushed her into; and so I began to worry about the possible fallout of her changed ethos on my life as well
43. The very nothingness of their acquirements makes them more conceited, they know as an absolute truth that the Arabic grammar, law, rhetoric, and logic, comprise all that is worth knowing upon earth
44. cruel and evil – but I often was tarred with the “she’s so conceited” brush
45. disinterest was mislabeled as conceit – and, maybe (on some level) I was conceited
46. formless God is more arduous, because they who feel conceited be-
47. ‘These conceited persons, intoxicated by vanity and wealth, offer
48. He had been taught a very hard lesson, and been set up as an example for every conceited, self-focused person who witnessed the incident
49. Yet man should not be conceited by what he has attained, because this science is but a produce of the thought and mind which the Almighty has obliged us with so as to be lofty by them, not to be like the jinn who pass through the confines of heavens and earth for evil purposes and eavesdropping
50. Could the devil cause our Master Adam (cpth) and his wife to be conceited?! Or may this verse have a delicate meaning that suits the position and perfection of this noble messenger! Replying this, we say: the word "so, he let them down" is taken from (let down), you say: someone let down the branch meaning that he made it near to him
1. Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in
2. 9 And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth
3. 9 And you will be acting I think still more senselessly if you follow vain conceits about the truth
4. I knew by intuition that the fiancée of the magician was not much appreciated, what was expected considering the pretensions and the nobility conceits that were outcropping her person at first sight
5. lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
6. He knew of the elegant conceits of
7. sounding, oratoricalstyle, the second, in the elegant conceits so
8. Which conceits had survived during the creation of this remarkable man who now sat before him in the glow of an oil lamp, and which had perished?
9. But of all there were none he liked so well as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva's composition, for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and cartels, where he often found passages like "the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;" or again, "the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves
10. " Over conceits of this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake striving to understand them and worm the meaning out of them; what Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come to life again for that special purpose
11. The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
12. Though it is not they that are in fault, but the simpletons that extol them, and the fools that believe in them; and had I been the faithful duenna I should have been, his stale conceits would have never moved me, nor should I have been taken in by such phrases as 'in death I live,' 'in ice I burn,' 'in flames I shiver,'
13. The oaks will yield us their sweet fruit with bountiful hand, the trunks of the hard cork trees a seat, the willows shade, the roses perfume, the widespread meadows carpets tinted with a thousand dyes; the clear pure air will give us breath, the moon and stars lighten the darkness of the night for us, song shall be our delight, lamenting our joy, Apollo will supply us with verses, and love with conceits whereby we shall make ourselves famed for ever, not only in this but in ages to come
14. And so the young man returns into the country of the lotus-eaters, and takes up his dwelling there in the face of all men; and if any help be sent by his friends to the oligarchical part of him, the aforesaid vain conceits shut the gate of the king's fastness; and they will neither allow the embassy itself to enter, nor if private advisers offer the fatherly counsel of the aged will they listen to them or receive them
15. Every line that could possibly be interpreted into a secret inclination for war, was carefully avoided; while, on the other hand, he studied those conceits that might be construed into amity
16. did not quite recall though the name certainly sounded familiar, for sixtyfive guineas and Farnaby and son with their dux and comes conceits and Byrd (William) who played the virginals, he said, in the Queen's chapel or anywhere else he found them and one Tomkins who made toys or airs and John Bull
17. And now, surrounded, like the saint-like personages of olden times, with a radiant halo, that glorified him amid this gloomy night of sin,—as if the departed Governor had left him an inheritance of his glory, or as if he had caught upon himself the distant shine of the celestial city, while looking thitherward to see the triumphant pilgrim pass within its gates,—now, in short, good Father Wilson was moving homeward, aiding his footsteps with a lighted lantern! The glimmer of this luminary suggested the above conceits to Mr
18. Another thing that hath troubled me, even since my late amendments, is, that if I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude, that notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless
19. The bar caused a moment of psychic concern, because every inch of it was painted red, and its name was Red, and the back of Reacher’s brain spun through fantastical conceits, trying to work out how Westwood was either a cop or a bad guy, tormenting him with the ghost of Pink, like something out of Shakespeare or Sherlock Holmes, but then he calmed down and figured the geek would have chosen the spot, and therefore the connection was coincidental
20. He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon
21. grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night
22. Each one was a girl of fair common sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or deny her love, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others
23. Everybody around her was gay and busy, prosperous and important; each had their object of interest, their part, their dress, their favourite scene, their friends and confederates: all were finding employment in consultations and comparisons, or diversion in the playful conceits they suggested
24. I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects
25. Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt—above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod
26. And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses;—when all these conceits had passed through his brain, Ahab's brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after some stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the firm thing from its place
27. Canning's mode of doing business; he chooses to act by tricks and contrivances; and, in the case of the disavowal, by a mental retort, flowing solely from his own visionary mental conceits, without a fact or pretext for its support
