Vain Quotes

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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that… — Thomas Jefferson
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile… — Mikhail Bakunin
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who… — Solomon Northup
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the… — Friedrich Engels
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free… — Alexander Pope
Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain.… — Rajneesh
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor? — Henry David Thoreau
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an… — Richard Rohr
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! — Robert Burns
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it… — Hudson Taylor
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that… — John Flavel

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