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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.


Oliver Goldsmith

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FRANCINE RIVERS We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
PROVERB The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for ...
JUDE MORGAN He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall wrest the secret...
OMAR KHAYYáM Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It makes me angry. My son did not die in vain. And I don't believe that her son died in vain either.
JANET NORWOOD I find that men are far more vain than women.
PATRICIA ARQUETTE When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the ...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Olive...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
JOHN LOCKE Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Only the vain are concerned with their name.
RONALD FRANCIS GOGGIN I want justice for my child, I don't want his life to be in vain, I don't want him dying in vain...I...
CASSANDRA BAILEY Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for...
BRET HARTE (FRANCIS BRET HARTE) Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
EDMUND WALLER Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy...
THOMAS BROWNE Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime number...
LEONHARD EULER Amidst a sea of company men and women I struggle in vain attempts to fit my triangular mind into a s...
TAMARA AW My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace ...
SUSAN KAY There is no station that does not stop the vain illusions of life which awaits its death.
SORIN CERIN To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which ...
HENRY DRUMMOND Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can te...
PERE LA COMBE A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
JESSAMYN WEST To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
DAVID HILBERT My baby was murdered. Don't let my baby's death be in vain.
GINA JONES what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction
which I have resist...
CHARLES DICKENS And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
THOMAS GRAY One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people
GEORGE CARLIN The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
ANATOLE FRANCE The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
ANATOLE FRANCE The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them
ANATOLE FRANCE It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the bra...
VOLTAIRE Every medicine is vain.
AESCHYLUS The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain w...
JOHN RUSKIN The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower, From my ...
PATRICK PROCTOR ALEXANDER No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.
UNKNOWN And not a vanity is given in vain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
OPRAH WINFREY They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
ROBERT BURNS Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Nature does nothing in vain.
ARISTOTLE Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rat...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
JOHN MILTON There are men who love to gaze with the mind at things that can never be seen, feel at least the thr...
A.E. COPPARD How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are no...
BLAISE PASCAL Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
ABRAHAM COWLEY I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
DANNY GLOVER Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessl...
LEO ROSTEN Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city,...
ANONYMOUS His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufactu...
EMMA WILLARD Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
ROBERT BURNS My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.
JOHN GAY Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.
GEORGE GRANVILLE Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never fi...
ERIC CLAPTON A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
ISAAC WATTS A flower, when offered in the bud,/ is no vain sacrifice.
ISAAC WATTS Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it
MARK TWAIN Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Go...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film).
DEYTH BANGER The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.
THOMAS DOUBLEDAY There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myse...
THOMAS MERTON It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to le...
ANNIE DILLARD evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die ...
JOAN BAEZ Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
BIBLE You're So Vain.
CARLY SIMON People who don't know me lower their eyes in embarrassment when the Lord's name is taken in vain in ...
SISTER PARISH Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
ARISTOTLE I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOW An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT The vain need learn, that the physicals of beauty, degrades in their coffin.
IAN IJH HOWELL The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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but crush'd or trodden to the groun...
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The swain ...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more s...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them
OLIVER GOLDSMITH