Jane Austen Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Vanity Quotes

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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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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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of 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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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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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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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Evil Quotes

I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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