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Letter "E" » egotism
«Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself»
«If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.»
«If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism»
«If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.»
«He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t»
«Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it»
«Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Teenage
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Keywords:
assertion,
assertions,
chuckle,
chuckles,
dense,
denser,
egotism,
intolerance,
nineteen,
opaque,
pathetic,
perception,
pitiful,
self assertion,
unconsciousness
«I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Keywords:
abolished,
conceit,
conceited,
egotism,
egotistical,
guru,
gurus,
illness,
selfishness,
The Guru,
The Illness
«It all worked out - I was saved, and the egotism within my heart was subdued. The evil energies have been made to serve me, since I placed my faith in the True Guru. I have renounced my useless schemes, by the Grace of the True, Carefree Lord.»
«Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.»