How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man… — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
