In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane The redbreast looks in vain For hips and haws, Lo, shining flowers upon my window pane The silver pencil of the winter draws.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
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A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.
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When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon; What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
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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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Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. POPE: Satire v., Line 267. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some f
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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I talk of dreams Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind.
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Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strif
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One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain?
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It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
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Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minut
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Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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