Vainly Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. — Edward Joseph Schwartz
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. — Mortimer Collins
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged… — Victoria Woodhull
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we… — Robert Grudin
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the… — Edward Hoagland
We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle… — Ayn Rand
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. — Mignon McLaughlin
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing… — William James
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think… — John Brown
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single… — Andrew Marvell
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast… — Jean Paul
Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from… — Rabindranath Tagore
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to… — Gautama Buddha
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly… — Swami Vivekananda

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