Mark Twain Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Giving Quotes

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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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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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Glasses Quotes

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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

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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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