I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man… — Buddha Copy Share Image
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
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