Mark Twain Quotes, Humorous Quotes, Vanity Quotes

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

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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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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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Children Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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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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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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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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity 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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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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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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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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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 is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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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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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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