True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
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We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country.… — Susan Collins 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
I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
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If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi 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
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An'… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our… — William Law Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
![“[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/blaise-pascal-167_boast_unbelievers-think-they-have-made-great-e_1830192.jpg)
