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"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail read more
"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
Vanity, like murder, will out.
Vanity, like murder, will out.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being read more
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.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is
as nothing before thee: verily every read more
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is
as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is
altogether vanity. Selah.
