Al Michaels Quotes, Sports Quotes, Vanity 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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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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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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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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

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

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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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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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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

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

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