William Butler Yeats Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Years Quotes

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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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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Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

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

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Vanity Quotes

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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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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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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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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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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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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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Affection Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Doubt Quotes

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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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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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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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Vanity Quotes

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

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

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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Profound Quotes

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

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