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Vainly Quotes

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly Picture Quote #1

The law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience Picture Quote #1

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix Picture Quote #1

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery Picture Quote #1

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars Picture Quote #1

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came Picture Quote #1

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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it Picture Quote #1

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one’s memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred Picture Quote #1

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life Picture Quote #1

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging Picture Quote #1

Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.Yes, we are going to die, / let’s not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now. Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate Picture Quote #1

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it Picture Quote #1

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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle Picture Quote #1

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties Picture Quote #1

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods Picture Quote #1

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry’s problem before it gets out of hand Picture Quote #1

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside Picture Quote #1

O, brothers! Let us leave the shame and sin of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, the holy name of grief - holy herein, that, by the grief of one, came all our good Picture Quote #1

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My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children’s do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people Picture Quote #1

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside Picture Quote #1

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done Picture Quote #1

That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us Picture Quote #1

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown Picture Quote #1

There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been Picture Quote #1

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There aren’t many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years Picture Quote #1

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime Picture Quote #1

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander Picture Quote #1

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers, which ever, as rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow that is new - trimmed, but benefit no further than vainly longing Picture Quote #1

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding Picture Quote #1

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air - pump of unbelief - in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath Picture Quote #1

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly (Vainly Quotes) The law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience (Vainly Quotes) Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix (Vainly Quotes) The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery (Vainly Quotes) Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars (Vainly Quotes) Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came (Vainly Quotes) In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it (Vainly Quotes) I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one’s memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred (Vainly Quotes) Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life (Vainly Quotes) Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging (Vainly Quotes) Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.Yes, we are going to die, / let’s not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now. Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate. (Vainly Quotes) Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it (Vainly Quotes) He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle (Vainly Quotes) My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties (Vainly Quotes) In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods (Vainly Quotes) Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry’s problem before it gets out of hand (Vainly Quotes) What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside. (Vainly Quotes) O, brothers! Let us leave the shame and sin of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, the holy name of grief - holy herein, that, by the grief of one, came all our good (Vainly Quotes) My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children’s do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people (Vainly Quotes) What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside (Vainly Quotes) I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done (Vainly Quotes) That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us (Vainly Quotes) Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown (Vainly Quotes) There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been (Vainly Quotes) There aren’t many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years (Vainly Quotes) How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime (Vainly Quotes) Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander (Vainly Quotes) We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers, which ever, as rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow that is new - trimmed, but benefit no further than vainly longing (Vainly Quotes) Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding (Vainly Quotes) I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air - pump of unbelief - in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath (Vainly Quotes)

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