Paulo Coelho Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Years Quotes

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

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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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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr).

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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

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I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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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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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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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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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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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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