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Tag Name "Vanity" (682)

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
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The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.
Johan Huizinga
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Aldous Huxley
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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness that is most remarkable.
Blaise Pascal
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What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Purpose without virtue is vanity.
Fernando Torres
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
Andre Gide
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I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.
Mark Duplass
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Joseph Joubert
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
Salma Hayek
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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
Don DeLillo
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When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.
William Law
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Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
Frederick Locker-Lampson
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[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.
Calvin Coolidge
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words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
Douglas Rushkoff
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True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.
William Cowper
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That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
David Hewson
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There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names such is history.
Lew Wallace
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
James Joyce
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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