Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
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Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain.. The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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Because of Christ's resurrectionand His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Himwe are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
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Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
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The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her tra
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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
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Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality.
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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it
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