Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
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Vain
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Against boredom even gods struggle in vain."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain."
John Keats
Poet
"Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun."
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"Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject."
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"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"
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"I'm glad I haven't lived in vain."
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"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."
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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
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"Nature does nothing in vain."
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"I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being."
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"If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere."
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
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"Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain."
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"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."
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"An old dog barks not in vain."
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"To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation."
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"It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history."
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"O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold."
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"In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."
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"In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous."
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"How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired."
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"Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control."
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