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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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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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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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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

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

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

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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 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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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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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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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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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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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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