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«Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are»
«Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? / The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.»
«Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.»
«For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.»
«For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.»
«And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«My Lord and Master is the Giver of the fruits of the mind's desires. He knows all the useless vanities and pains of the soul.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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«Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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conceits, fang, fangs, germinate, germinated, germinates, germinating, learns, luxury, The Wolf, vanities, wolf