Vain Quotes by Emily Dickinson

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• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
• Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
• Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P T Barnum
• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
• To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
• I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow
• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra

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