Vain Quotes
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
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In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
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I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
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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.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.
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Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
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You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
