Jane Austen Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Affection Quotes

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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