A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Nicholas Culpeper
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Aeschylus
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Thomas Gray
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
Jacques Lacan
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph A. Cram
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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