"I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency……" — Sidney Lanier
"I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk."
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Sidney Lanier
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12 Quotes by Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier has 12 quotes on this site.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
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When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with…
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Music is love searching for a word.
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Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to…
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But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a…
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Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry.…
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If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency…
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Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame.…
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Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the…
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Music is love in search of a word.
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More Conceit Quotes
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one of 183 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
— Aesop
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes…
— Watchman Nee
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Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease,…
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart…
— Janet Morris
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
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