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- As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it… — David Brainerd
- How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!… — Aron Nimzowitsch
- To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. — Ben Jonson
- How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal
- How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal
- How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal
- How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell