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Vanity Quotes by Anonymous

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Anonymous points out that vanity often hides a lack of real knowledge, especially in youth. The quotes say trying to control how others see you wastes energy, and that self‑indulgence fuels the biggest vanity. They also warn that love and reputation can feel like tricks rather than truth.

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“Vanity is of no value”

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KING VANITY! ;D

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Self-indulgence produces a vanity of all vanities.

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

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Purpose without virtue is vanity.

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Religion is the highest vanity.

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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

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“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

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“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious…

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“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to…

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Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness; being vain of one's ability is the way to…

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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…

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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I…

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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and…

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -…

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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity…

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I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no…

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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…

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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other…

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into…

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“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at…

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With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the…

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Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or…

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And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond…

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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

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Always remember that vanity leads to a disgusting sense of self-love, do not love yourself, love the world instead.

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Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself…

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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will…

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in…

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To…

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“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple…

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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own…

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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any…

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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught…

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