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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. — Aeschylus

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. — Isaac Watts

Because, in the end, without love all our effort is wasted, all we do is in vain. — Rick Yancey

It's a funny thing about suspicions, Mr. Wright. All too often, they're just vain hopes in disguise. — Tessa Dare

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. — Bob Hope

Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain. — Abraham Cowley

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain. — Nigel Hamilton

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain. — Phoebe Cary

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain. — Gasmaskman

Above all, the earth is moving in a void. All efforts of man to improve it are a vain endeavour. — Sibaprasad Dutta

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for. — Ross Thomas

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. — Baruch Spinoza

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind. — Sarah Dessen

All of them. Fated to love in vain. — Anne Rouen

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. — Edith Wharton

Then they reflect how pointlessly they acquired things they never would enjoy, and how all their toil has been in vain. — Seneca.

Those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments. — Leo Tolstoy

As Christmas approaches remember all that you have experienced - has not been in vain. — Eleesha

344. All that is done for Jesus is not in vain — Sunday Adelaja

All we ask you to do is submit to it, and, if you scream or moan, to agree ahead of time that it will be in vain, — Pauline Reage

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me. — Angelus Silesius

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality — Adam Clayton Powell III

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. — Anacreon

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there. — Fanny Burney

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain. — Thomas Jefferson

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another. — Alexander Pope

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. — Georges Bizet

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn

It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes Robert believed one thing and sometimes the other, and he wondered if that was true of all those who loved too much and in vain. — Jeane Westin

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ... — Michael Moorcock

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. — Charles Dickens

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. — Berthold Auerbach

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. — Thomas A Kempis

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave. — Richard Chenevix Trench

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal

This is that rest this vain world lends,
To end in death that all things ends. — Samuel Daniel

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words. — W.C. Fields

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain. — Rudolf Steiner

How can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain? — Vladimir Nabokov

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. — Nicholas Culpeper

How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn; — Ivan Turgenev

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile. — Alfred Austin

Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket. — Nelson DeMille

All's fair in love and war'. I could hear the vain grin on his lip as he recited the idiom. — Nely Cab

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. — John Bartholomew Gough