"You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be."
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"Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain."
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"Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign."
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"And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain"
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"flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery."
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"How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all."
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"I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain."
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"Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave."
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"This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends."
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"It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself."
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"Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick."
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"And panting Time toil'd after him in vain."
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"it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck."
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"Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost."
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"I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain.""
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"Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action."
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"Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead."
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"...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)"
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"If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality."
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"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."
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