Alexander Pope Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Vain Quotes

And not a vanity is given in vain.

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

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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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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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

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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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

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

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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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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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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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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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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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

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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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