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«Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Keywords: in vain, True Love, vain
«It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain»
Author: Doris Fleeson | About: Hell | Keywords: bucket, buckets, charge, gods, Gods Themselves, in vain, occasionally, struggle, stupidity, take charge, the gods, The Gods Themselves, vain
«Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Knowledge, Mind, Thought, Understanding, Words | Keywords: human mind, intimate, introduces, introducing, in vain, out of place, Shakespeare, vain, workings
«Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: effect, in vain, select, selects, vain
«On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | About: Power, Truth | Keywords: climb, higher power, higher up, in vain, mountains, mountain climbing, powers, training, vain
«Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.»
Author: Homer | Keywords: unite, vain, weakest
«Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Liberty | Keywords: in vain, peril, The Perils of, vain
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Conscience, Egotism, Sin, Vanity | Keywords: all, all told, being, conscience, egotist, egotists, is a, makes, nothing, one, sinner, tell on, The Telling, told, U.S., us, vain
«No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: biography, History of, History of the, History of the world, in vain, The History, The History of, vain
«It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: coward, defied, defying, flee, follows, vain
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