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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Veins, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

  Mason Cooley

  Spiteful, Hungry, Feds

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• Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Healthy, Bed

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• Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

  Mason Cooley

  Friends

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• Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

  Georges Danton

  Men, Two, Broke

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• Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  War, People, Vain

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.261

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• It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, Doe, Excess

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• Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

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• When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

  Heath L'Estrange

  Men

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• It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Vices, Delight

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• Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Three, Mixtures, Sometimes

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• Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flattery, Currents

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• Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Air, Mind, Quality

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.223

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• Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Honor, Heroism

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• The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

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• Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, May, Vain

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.115

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• It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

  Arthur Helps

  Admiration, Accounts, Gratification

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.83

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• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

  Arthur Helps

  Art, Business, Character

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• Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Modesty, Sometimes, Ultras

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.1

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• Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

  Richard Whately

  Religious, Men, Feelings

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.59

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• The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Talking, Shining, Desire

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Letters to young ladies”, p.175

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• Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of themselves, as far as my experience and observation reach, have from that time not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performances, but have gone backward. They may be compared to men who have lived upon their principal, till they are reduced to beggary, and left without resources.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Gone, May

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• Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Taken, Imperfection, Half

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.152

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Personality, Normal

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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