Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn 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
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Hating people is like throwing stones at the tree which cant give you any fruit. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one… — Dogen Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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