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Specially does he recognise and mourn his "self-idolatry," which has isolated him from others, and confined him within the close and vitiated circle of his own selfhood.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

She was the daughter of a great Italian prince, the prince of a corrupt but mighty city; and she has now become an idol through her self-idolatry.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

Of course, riches were sought above everything, since these furnished the means of gratifying those pleasures which were most valued, or stimulating that vanity whose essence is self-idolatry.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John

Hence, too, among the weak, whimsies, affectation, rude disregard of proprieties, slothful neglect of common duties, surrender to the claims of natural appetite, self-indulgence, self-absorption, and self-idolatry.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

Who would be the highest, in virtue of the largest mistake, of the profoundest self-idolatry!

From Home Again by MacDonald, George