Jane Austen Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Affection Quotes

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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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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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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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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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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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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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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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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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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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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