Vain Man Quotes

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control… — Lord Byron
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a… — Baruch Spinoza
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
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