Vain Quotes

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Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the… — Thomas Gray
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. — Walter Scott
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in… — Walter Scott
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause… — Nicholas Grimald
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? — John Dryden
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or… — John Dryden
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the… — Benjamin Franklin
And weep the more, because I weep in vain. — Thomas Gray
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree â€” the greatest tree in the forest? You may… — Chinua Achebe
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they… — Charlotte Bronte
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be… — Napoleon Hill
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain,… — Stephen Sondheim
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty… — Unknown Author
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools… — Jonathan Swift
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud

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