Vanity vs. Pride . . . A No-win Situation?

Throughout this summer, I've been keeping myself up to date in my multi-tasking study skills. Before I came home in May, I was cultivating a list of at least 12 books that I would be reading concurrently until I returned to college. On a dare from my sister, I added yet another tome onto my reading list: Pride & Prejudice. I haven't finished it yet (i.e. I know from the movies how it turns out, just don't spoil any details for me!), but I have grown very fascinated with how the novel compares and contrasts pride and vanity. Jane Austen draws the distinction down to this -- vanity is what we would wish other people to see in us; pride is what we think about ourselves. This got me to thinking about which could be the worse of the two. Vanity worries constantly about the opinions of others while pride cares not a thing at all about others. The life of a vain person is consumed by feedback and always earning the respect of everyone else, everyday! The proud person leads a life that is full of themself, with no room in it for anyone else. Ultimately, vanity leaves us without a mind of our own and pride robs us from having a heart that has any compassion for other people. That is where my train of thought has taken me over the past few days after what I read in Austen's book. But to refrain from sounding too proud, tell me, what do you think about pride and vanity? Oh, dear me! There goes my vanity again.