Lord Byron Quotes, Vanity Quotes, May 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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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Vanity Quotes

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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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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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Opponents Quotes

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Sin Quotes

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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

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

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Literature Quotes

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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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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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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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fire Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Lying Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Disaster Quotes

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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Tags : Al Michaels Quotes , Sports Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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