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.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.