Vainly Quotes
53 quotes by 50 authors
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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
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Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.
— Edward Joseph Schwartz
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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
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Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
— Mortimer Collins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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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
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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
— George Iles
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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
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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
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single…
— Andrew Marvell
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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
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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
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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
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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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