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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle | top
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. W. H. Auden | top
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen | top
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. Kenneth Branagh | top
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. Mary Chesnut | top
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes | top
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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 | top
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Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. William Dunbar | top
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Dwight D. Eisenhower | top
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. Leonhard Euler | top
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Khalil Gibran | top
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. Danny Glover | top
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And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Thomas Gray | top
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt | top
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung | top
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats | top
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In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. James McHenry | top
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo | top
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. Florence Nightingale | top
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. John Boyd Orr | top
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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 | top
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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. Josiah Royce | top
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich Schiller | top
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Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain. Hideki Tojo | top
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. Walter Winchell | top