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| Joseph Addison |
If we hope for what we...
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| Theodor Adorno |
The man for whom time...
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| Theodor Adorno |
But he who dies in despair...
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| Aeschylus |
And though all streams flow...
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| Aesop |
It is in vain to expect...
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| Ben Affleck |
I'm not the type of guy...
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| Akhenaton |
When virtue and modesty enlighten...
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| William Alexander |
Yet with great toil all that...
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| Diane Arbus |
Men are but children of a...
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| Aristotle |
Thou wilt find rest from vain...
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| Aristotle |
Nature does nothing in vain.
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| W. H. Auden |
Fame often makes a writer vain...
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| Jane Austen |
Vanity and pride are different...
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| Jane Austen |
Husbands and wives generally understand...
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| Abu Bakr |
Do not follow vain desires...
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| James M. Barrie |
The praise that comes from...
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| Max Beerbohm |
To say that a man is...
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| Max Beerbohm |
To say that a man is...
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| Marek Belka |
We take our international responsibilities...
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| Saul Bellow |
I'm glad I haven't lived in...
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| Jeremy Bentham |
It is vain to talk of...
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| Bodhidharma |
Life and death are important...
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| Kenneth Branagh |
I think the best actors are...
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| Andre Breton |
No rules exist, and examples...
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| Jacob Bronowski |
It is vain to say human...
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| Charlotte Bronte |
It is in vain to say...
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| Charlotte Bronte |
It is vain to say human...
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
World's use is cold, world's...
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| Jean de la Bruyere |
A vain man finds it wise...
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| James Lee Burke |
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical...
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| Lord Byron |
Roll on, deep and dark blue...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
No great man lives in vain...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
It is a vain hope to...
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| Dennis Chavez |
If the Constitution is worth...
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| Mary Chesnut |
I do not allow myself vain...
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| Adam Clayton |
Unless man is committed to the...
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| Susan Collins |
We can never fully repay the...
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| Ralph A. Cram |
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth...
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| Abraham Crowley |
A mighty pain to love it...
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| Nicholas Culpeper |
All Juleps are made for...
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| Demosthenes |
All speech is vain and empty...
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| Emily Dickinson |
If I can stop one heart...
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| Edsger Dijkstra |
About the use of language: it...
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| Henry Drummond |
To become Christ-like is the...
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| William Dunbar |
Our pleasance here is all vain...
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| Henry Van Dyke |
Half of the secular unrest and...
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
We will bankrupt ourselves in...
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| George Eliot |
In the vain laughter of folly...
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| T. S. Eliot |
And they write innumerable books...
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| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
We are so vain that we...
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| Leonhard Euler |
Mathematicians have tried in vain...
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| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Few can believe that suffering...
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| Kahlil Gibran |
Pain and foolishness lead to...
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| Danny Glover |
I'm not so vain as to...
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| Tracey Gold |
I don't believe things happen...
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| Mike Gravel |
The entire deaths of Vietnam...
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| Thomas Gray |
And weep the more, because I...
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| Franz Grillparzer |
Poetry, it is often said and...
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| Johann G. Hamann |
Everything is vain and tortures...
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| Augustus W. Hare |
Examples would indeed be excellent...
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| William Hazlitt |
An honest man speaks the truth...
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| David Hilbert |
He who seeks for methods...
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| Homer |
How vain, without the merit...
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| David Hume |
Accuracy is, in every case...
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| Carl Jung |
Often the hands will solve a...
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| John Keats |
I will give you a definition...
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| Thomas Kempis |
Oh, how great peace and...
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| Omar Khayyam |
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though...
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| Louis Kronenberger |
Nothing so soothes our vanity...
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| Jacques Lacan |
But this emphasis would be...
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| William Law |
Death is not more certainly a...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
The common idea that success...
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| James McHenry |
In vain, without the Bible, we...
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| Michelangelo |
The promises of this world are...
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| Jonny Lee Miller |
The whole point of being an...
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| Kate Moss |
I thought it was quite vain...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
On the mountains of truth you...
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| Florence Nightingale |
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely...
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| Charles Eliot Norton |
If a war be undertaken...
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| William of Occam |
It is vain to do with...
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| John B. Orr |
Some think the worst horrors...
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| John Owen |
All other ways of mortification...
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| Blaise Pascal |
We conceal it from ourselves...
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| Dave Pelzer |
Whatever you do for the sole...
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| William Penn |
To be a man's own fool...
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| Laurence J. Peter |
You can't cross the sea merely...
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| Phaedrus |
In outward show so splendid...
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| Alexander Pope |
Beauties in vain their pretty...
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| George Dennison Prentice |
It is in vain to hope...
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| George Dennison Prentice |
A word of kindness is seldom...
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| Marcus Fabius Quintilian |
Vain hopes are like certain...
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| Francois Rabelais |
Because just as arms have no...
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| Frederick William Robertson |
In God's world, for those who...
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| Galen Rowell |
One of the biggest mistakes a...
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| Josiah Royce |
This preparatory sort of idealism...
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| Helena Rubinstein |
Men are just as vain as...
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| John Ruskin |
Men don't and can't live by...
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| John Ruskin |
I have not written in vain...
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| Friedrich Schiller |
Against stupidity the very gods...
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| Friedrich Schiller |
With stupidity the gods themselves...
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| William Shakespeare |
When words are scarce they are...
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| Wallace Shawn |
I have been vain since birth...
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Concerning God, freewill and destiny...
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| William Gilmore Simms |
Most men remember obligations, but...
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| George A. Smith |
If we have a heart for...
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| Alexander Smith |
In life there is nothing more...
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| Robert Southey |
Affliction is not sent in vain...
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| Baruch Spinoza |
It may easily come to pass...
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| John Strachan |
In vain shall Great Britain...
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| Dorothy Stratten |
Looks are temporary and don't...
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| Thomas Sydenham |
The generality have considered that...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
How vain it is to sit...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
There are a thousand hacking...
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| Hideki Tojo |
Therefore, if one were to...
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| Peter Ustinov |
Pavarotti is not vain, but...
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| Voltaire |
It is vain for the coward...
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| Edmund Waller |
Vexed sailors cursed the rain...
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| Mika Waltari |
During my life I have seen...
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| Gideon Welles |
It is vain to expect a...
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| Jessamyn West |
A religious awakening which does...
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| Emma Willard |
His daughter returned from her...
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| Walter Winchell |
We must not indulge in...
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| Mary Wollstonecraft |
Women have seldom sufficient employment...
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| Frances Wright |
It is in vain that we...
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