Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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Much is to be learned by comparing one part of Scripture with another. We here behold Solomon returning from the broken and empty cisterns of the world, to the Fountain of living water; recording his own folly and shame, the bitterness of his disappointment, and the lessons he had learned.
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This thought runs through Ecclesiastes 1:1-3.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 quoted in popular culture
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- Arthur Balfour
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the " vanity of vanities " proclaimed by the Preacher. Logic always seems to be telling us,
- Ecclesiastes
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- Eduard von Hartmann
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- Evelyn Waugh
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: God's.' Part 3, near end of Chapter 5 Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities , all is vanity. Epilogue All day the heat had been barely supportable
- Francesca Carrara
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: pilgrimage. Could life preserve its illusions, who would be fit to die ? Vanity of vanities is written on this side of the grave, but that we may more clearly
- Frederick II of Prussia
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: raise a mouthful of water closer than fifty paces from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities ! Vanity of geometry! Letter H 7434 from Frederick to Voltaire (1778-01-25)
- Helen Hunt Jackson
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? " Vanity of Vanities ", line 1, p. 214. When Time is spent, Eternity begins. "The Victory
- Leonhard Euler
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities ! Vanity of geometry! Frederick the Great, Letters of Voltaire and
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities , all is vanity. Conversation of 1934 You must always be puzzled by
- Manlio Sgalambro
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: behind the tumult of appearances lies a profound quiet. Every story is vanity of vanities . The presence of catastrophe in the Sicilian soul is expressed in
- Mathematics
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities ! Vanity of geometry! Frederick the Great, Letters of Voltaire and
- Passion
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? Helen Hunt Jackson, Vanity of Vanities . If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from
- Philosophical pessimism
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities , saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all
- Vanity
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas. Vanity of vanities , said the preacher; vanity of vanities , and everything is vanity. Vulgate, a late 4th-century
- Vulgate
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Wikiquote match for "vanity of vanities" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "vanity of vanities". Snippet: fall into it. Proverbia 26:27 Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas. Vanity of vanities , and all is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:2 Nihil sub sole novum. Nothing