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Vain Quotes

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders Picture Quote #1

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says Picture Quote #1

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable Picture Quote #1

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue Picture Quote #1

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires Picture Quote #1

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain Picture Quote #1

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If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself Picture Quote #1

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge Picture Quote #1

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage Picture Quote #1

... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself Picture Quote #1

I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all Picture Quote #1

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not Picture Quote #1

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Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things Picture Quote #1

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet Picture Quote #1

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have.. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality.. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory Picture Quote #1

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me Picture Quote #1

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing Picture Quote #1

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty Picture Quote #1

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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father’s name Picture Quote #1

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent Picture Quote #1

I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational Picture Quote #1

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one Picture Quote #1

We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives! Picture Quote #1

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain Picture Quote #1

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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end Picture Quote #1

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain Picture Quote #1

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life:... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life Picture Quote #1

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will Picture Quote #1

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it Picture Quote #1

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile Picture Quote #1

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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders (Vain Quotes) To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says (Vain Quotes) Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable (Vain Quotes) I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue (Vain Quotes) Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires (Vain Quotes) Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain (Vain Quotes) If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself (Vain Quotes) Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge (Vain Quotes) In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage (Vain Quotes) ... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself (Vain Quotes) I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all (Vain Quotes) I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not (Vain Quotes) Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things (Vain Quotes) Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet (Vain Quotes) Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have.. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality.. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory (Vain Quotes) I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me (Vain Quotes) I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing (Vain Quotes) Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty (Vain Quotes) We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father’s name (Vain Quotes) Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent (Vain Quotes) I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational (Vain Quotes) Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one (Vain Quotes) We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives! (Vain Quotes) Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain (Vain Quotes) We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end (Vain Quotes) Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain (Vain Quotes) The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life:... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life (Vain Quotes) A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will (Vain Quotes) Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it (Vain Quotes) The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile (Vain Quotes)

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