Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Pride Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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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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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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

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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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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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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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Self praise is no praise at all.

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

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

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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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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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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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

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