All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen Copy Share Image
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. — Anacreon Copy Share Image
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“The one who did not understood that his time’s root supports his life tree was born in vain.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Whether she died in vain or not is for me to decide."- Sesshomaru” — Rumiko Takahashi Copy Share Image
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen! — Darrell Scott Copy Share Image
“Historiallisissa kysymyksissä suurinkin mahdollinen varmuus on vain likiarvo.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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