“ If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ”
- Rosalia Castro- Copy
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“ I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ”
- Book of Common Prayer- Copy
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“ Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ”
- Arthur Brisbane- Copy
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“ There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. - James Nathan Miller. ”
- James Nathan Miller- Copy
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“ To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
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“ Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. ”
- Mohamad Mahathir- Copy
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“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ You are not unworthy of the men who entered the ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and who contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia. ”
- Giuseppe Garibaldi- Copy
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“ Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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