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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. The Vanity of Human Wishes There is only one thing vainer and that is the having no wishes. Jones's Conscience He said he had not much conscience, and what little he had was guilty. Nihilism
At last, having written down a series of little sentences, with notes of interrogation attached to them, he observed aloud, "'Women 'under the heading Women I've written: "'Not really vainer than men. Lack of self-confidence at the base of most serious faults. Dislike of own sex traditional, or founded on fact?
But here! it need not make you vainer than you already are, but except my father, you are dearest in all the world to me. And then, only listen! In my character as priestess of Demeter I hereby release you from your vow, and thus from any evil consequences of your, moreover, very trivial guilt; for a father and daughter who live together, as I do with your uncle, are just the same as one person.
And he who shunned vain cares and vainer strife Found an eternity in one short life. As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. Those who stand out before a groping world as beacon-lights were men of great faults and unequal performances. It is quite needless to add that they do not live on account of their faults or imperfections, but in spite of them.
Anyhow I fancy that she would weary of me long before I wearied of her. I think women usually weary first. Men are very monotonous. We are as vain as women, if not vainer, without their capacity for concealing it. And vanity makes one think he does not need to exert himself to please." "But why do people usually say that it is the men that are difficult to hold?"
His present companion, Everett Wharton, had, as well as himself, been an original member; and Wharton had been one of those who had hoped to find in the club a stepping-stone to high political life, and who now talked often with idle energy of the need of organization. "For myself," said Lopez, "I can conceive no vainer object of ambition than a seat in the British Parliament.
I am no vainer than other men, but I saw that. Whatever her charm might be it was none for me. What could I say to interest her who lived in her foolish little world as one shut in a bright bubble? And she had said the wrong word about young Fitzgerald I wanted Vanna, with her deep seeing eyes, to say the right one and adjust those cruel values.
But once set her talking, she will forget your presence, and babble like the brook. How much she has told the poets, and the men of science! How much she will tell you, too, if you but heed her! Ah, girls, what slight attention we have, in reality, shown to Nature! We treat her more like a servant than a friend and companion. The desire for excitement has turned our minds to vainer subjects.
Over the vales and hills of Hellas this mood had lingered bravely for a while, then passed away forever ... and those who dreamed of its remembrance remain homeless and lonely, seeking it ever again in vain, lost citizens, rejected by the cycles of vainer life and action that succeeded. The Spirit of the Earth, yes, whispered in his ears as he waited covered by the night and stars.
The truth which would have long been clear to an older or a vainer man, flashed upon him suddenly. She loved him very much, and he no longer cared for her.
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