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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.»
«If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.»
«?You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You?ll care only about the darkness and you?ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you?re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you?ll be afraid to look away, you?ll be afraid to sleep.?»
Author: Mark Danielewski
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Darkness
| Keywords:
appointed, at bay, bay, constellation, constellations, evening star, indispensable, in vain, iridescent, keep an eye on, sentinel, sentinels, the darkness, trace
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
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«Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.»
«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 - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attack, damned, damnedest, decent, equally, eternity, followed, grace, heart attack, heart attacks, in vain, Lord's table, minutes, name, outburst, outbursts, system, the LORD, The name, the system, vain, wick, wicked
«Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
chattering, chatters, in vain, listens, rein, reined, talks, wordy
«Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
boredom, Gods Themselves, in vain, the gods, The Gods Themselves, vain
«All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
apprehensible, conveyed, conveying, conveys, fictions, intelligible, in vain, Makers, multitude, prophesy, Prophets, sweetness, teachers, Teach In, tellers, The Makers, The Prophets, truths, vain
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
generous, gracious, in vain, petition, petitioner, petitions, presented, refused, rewarded, The petition, visitation
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