![He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-the-miser-falls-down-and-worships-the-god-of-this-world-but-will-have-neith.jpg)
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. E. W. Howe
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The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it. Scott Reed
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I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life. Bill Hader
fall cry chin-up
Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk. Cecelia Ahern
falling-in-love mind fleeing
Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.
fall rivers luck
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
fall body groups
This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
falling-in-love heart moon
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fall tired mirrors
I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity glasses shining
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. William Shakespeare
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
world littles firsts
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world. Benoit Mandelbrot
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. Bill Bryson
world speed
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world good-things
It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things. Bill Burr
world faces looks
We ought to look the world frankly in the face.
world adequate causes
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence