Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. — Charles Fenno Hoffman Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.' — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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