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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.
I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]