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In desert wilds, in midnight gloom; in grateful joy, in trying pain; in laughing youth, or nigh the tomb; oh! When is prayer unheard or vain?  (Vain Quotes) Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain  (Vain Quotes) We are so little and vain that the esteem of five or six persons about us is enough to content and amuse us  (Vain Quotes) Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest  (Vain Quotes) Complaints are vain; we will try to. Do better another time. tomorrow and tomorrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past  (Vain Quotes) Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect  (Vain Quotes) It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions  (Vain Quotes) Ah, friend! To dazzle let the vain design; to raise the thought and touch the heart be thine  (Vain Quotes) A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others  (Vain Quotes) The present is our own; but while we speak, we cease from its possession, and resign the stage we tread on, to another race, as vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves  (Vain Quotes) Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones  (Vain Quotes) Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time  (Vain Quotes) Away! We know that tears are vain, that death ne’er heeds nor hears distress  (Vain Quotes) All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent  (Vain Quotes) Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones  (Vain Quotes) This is that rest this vain world lends, to end in death that all things ends  (Vain Quotes) Without a genius, learning soars in vain; and, without learning, genius sinks again; their force united; crowns the sprightly reign  (Vain Quotes) It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough  (Vain Quotes) We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us  (Vain Quotes) Men are vain; but they won’t mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job  (Vain Quotes) Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy  (Vain Quotes) Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain  (Vain Quotes) You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes  (Vain Quotes) It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world  (Vain Quotes) I have never been vain. I don’t take myself seriously. I don’t consider myself sexy or good-looking  (Vain Quotes) And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness  (Vain Quotes) I never, with important air, in conversation overbear... My tongue within my lips I rein; for who talks much must talk in vain  (Vain Quotes) Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; pass, therefore, not today in vain, for it will never come again  (Vain Quotes) We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action  (Vain Quotes) For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain  (Vain Quotes)
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