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Vain Quotes - Page 7

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.57, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.460

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.1

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 3, 1786.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Jerome K. Jerome (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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.

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War”, p.15

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.72

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.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.79, Yale University Press

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.321, Delphi Classics

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

"'I'm like every other woman. I'm super-vain. I have issues'". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2007.