Word: conceited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special charm to his intercourses, and gave a peculiar flavor to his pervasive humor. His nature was frank and open, and in case of need his opinions were uttered with great vigor and certainty; but he shrank from display and avoided public distinctions. He was totally free from self-conceit...
...Rondeau of Conceit," John A. Macy...
...evident that the winter must have passed his life in the seclusion of his own conceit, if he thinks that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those who have never heard of Harvard, or have received their knowledge of her through just such unreliable sources as the writer of the passage quoted above. A man who knows Harvard as she is would never sacrifice his reputation for intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such...
...using the body as an instrument, superior to it. Another certitude to many is the existence of moral law. They find themselves more positive about laws of righteousness and purity than of those of physics and mechanics. The third certitude is the violation of the moral laws. Men without conceit cannot avoid the sure feeling that they are not what they might have been and should be. The fourth is the knowledge that there exists a Supporting Power; One who helps men bear their burdens and gives them strength to do right. The fifth is that there is one Character...
...from one who filled here for many years the place of a teacher in morals and religion. Many of you are in the common phrase professors of religion. While I rejoice in the fact I do not like the term. It sometimes cherishes a quasi-godly sort of self-conceit. and it keeps many out of the church who ought to be in it. I go to the table in my own house not because I profess to be well filled but because I am hungry and thirsty; and I ought to go to the Lord's table, not because...