"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance."
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
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"Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation."
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"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
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"The French courage proceeds from vanity"
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"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."
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"A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false."
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"Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair."
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"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
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"Through your rags I see your vanity."
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"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
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"Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity."
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
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"Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man."
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
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"We speak little if not egged on by vanity."
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"When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses."
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"A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity."
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"Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell."
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