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A word of kindness is rarely spoken in vain, while many people still chase approval from strangers they barely know. These quotes point out how vanity can turn even good intentions into empty effort, and how it can make us judge ourselves too harshly.

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Even our smallest attempts are not in vain.

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Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

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How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

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Love; so many people use your name in vain.

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We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don't care for.

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The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have…

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If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than…

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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a…

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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and…

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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers…

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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

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evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and…

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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent…

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We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives…

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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when…

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Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does…

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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is…

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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I…

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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the…

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She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in…

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The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and…

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The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to…

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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The…

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The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father…

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I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but…

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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His…

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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the…

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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let…

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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the…

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In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I…

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Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

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Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating…

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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will,…

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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers;…

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The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

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