Quotes 61 till 78 of 78.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive;
Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive;
Millions endeavouring to supply
Each other's Lust and Vanity.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 31, p. 3 -
Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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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.''
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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