Precept & Practice – APRIL 19 – Self-conceit

Self-conceit is the very daughter of self-will, and of that loud crying out about I, and me, and mine, which is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad road which leads to death. 

The Reverend Charles Kingsley

The two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit.

Matthew Arnold (Essays in Criticism)

My heart’s prayer is, Deliver me, ye.   Supreme Powers, from Self-conceit, oh do,- and then what else is your will.

Carlyle

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW