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" Quotes and Sayings About vanity

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Logic Pride Vanity People
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

After Always Breath Complacency
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Assistance Bearing Cutting Feel
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Because Call Exercise Fond
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Does Little Make Say
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Certain Conceited Countries God
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition Become Boyhood Men
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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

Cannot City Cosmic Depart
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Pretty Retire Something Vanity
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Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity.
Living Life Position Status
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Behind Discover Example
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To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Live Vanity Speak Well
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Basis Calls Come Conscience
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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Everything for this life na vanity. No body go shine forever.

Shine forever Life Everything Vanity
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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
Am Believe Favor Genes
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Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Purpose Virtue Vanity
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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Mortifying Believe Unpopular
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Agonizing Fine skin Vanity Application
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Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Music Satan Most attractive Soul
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Time Elephantine vanity Look far Campfires
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Abuse Always Another Anything
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

America Automobile Begins Chain
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Anybody Anything Art Artist
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Across Chapter Come Culture
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Cases Dies Hard Man
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Difficult Vanity Impossible Self love
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion

Hear theists Atheists Know God Exist
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Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Think Persuade me Appeals Intellectual vanity
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Curiosity Vanity Know something Talk
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Live Vanity Unreasonable Mortification
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Honor is decency without vanity.

Honor Decency Without vanity
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Life is just vanity. Pray daily for a life worth living.

Life Just vanity Pray daily Life
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Renounce Convention Vanity Delusion
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we

Stupidity Vanity Fail Direction
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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Vanity Wisdom Overtake Common sense
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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Vanity Revenge Lust Promiscuity
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