Mark Twain Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Metrics Quotes

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Contempt Quotes

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

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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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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Taoism Quotes

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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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Earth Quotes

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

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