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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 space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton

Knowledge, Power, Shadow, Space, Wealth

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. Ryan Holiday

Work, Goals, Freedom, Respect, Power

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence

Dreams, Day, Eyes, Men, Night, Dream

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. - Samuel Butler

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance, Characters

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. - Jane Austen

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Jane Austen

Weak, Working, Head, Mischief, Sort

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. Elle Macpherson

Women, Beautiful, Live, Myself, Good

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. Pope Francis

Beautiful, Truth, Reality, Look, You

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate. G-Dragon

Loneliness, I Am, People, Thinking, Me

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. Jane Welsh Carlyle

Live, Spirit, Cry, See, Kitten, I See

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. Taylor Swift

Myself, Insecurity, Feel, Distance

Censorship is the height of vanity. Martha Graham

Censorship, Height

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats

Wisdom, Man, Wise, Proud, You, Will

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe

Loneliness, Cure, Surest

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. Yousuf Karsh

Great, Quality, Men, Great Men, Single

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen

Pride, Words, Think, Proud, Opinion

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie

Beauty, Truth, Fall, Joy, Arrogance

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. Leon Trotsky

Man, America, Others, Find, Country, Top

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Robert Louis Stevenson

Man, Hard, Some, Dies, Obstinate, Cases

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. - Diana Vreeland

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. Diana Vreeland

Narcissism, Approve, Loathe

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it. Denis O'Hare

Today, Amazing, Crazy, Thinking, Stone

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, Hardest, Been, Just, Our, Wounded

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Welcome, Influence, Need, Seek

Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas

Wisdom, Common Sense, Sense, Common

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. Eugene O'Neill

Love, Losing, People, Think, Thinking

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal

Knowledge, Time, Science, Ignorance, Me

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