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Vainglory is the space between us

Vainglory is the space between us

Quote by Iulian Andrei about love, univers

Infusing him with self and vain conceit.

Infusing him with self and vain conceit.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, self-control

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act...

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Quote by Joseph Addison about shadow, dream, hope, life

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do...

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Quote by Aesop about work, pray

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Quote by Aristotel about nature, nothing

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every...

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Quote by Aristotel about life

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's...

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about cruelty, world, bitter, pain, use, love

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about dark, earth, man

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Quote by Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about proudness, vanity, opinion, people, being, things

We conceal it from ourselves in vain we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, moment, man

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is...

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Quote by William Penn about man, bad luck, bad

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and...

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, silence, books, being

I think about you in every moment and every image of you hurts me horribly. I want to feel every thought, every whisper you say in the deep silence of the eternity of you soul. To be able to cry in me, beside you, beside me in you, to be able to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, eternity, ancestors, infinite, smile, blood, silence, eyes, soul, truth

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers...

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Quote by André Breton about rules, life

I pray thee leave, love me no more, Call home the heart...

I pray thee leave, love me no more, Call home the heart you gave me, I but in vain the saint adore, That can, but will not, save me.

Quote by Michael Drayton about faith, saints, pray, home, heart, love

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true...

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Quote by Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer about poetry, literature, work, life

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Quote by Thomas Gray about poetry

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one...

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.

Quote by Emily Dickinson about purpose, pain, heart, life

I salute my angel every day I salute my angel every day good morning Mr. angel I tell him, but no answer I always make two coffees, but one usually remains untouched I asked him about one or two things, generaly speaking I have intrest...

Quote by Liviu Nanu about poetry, language, day, bad, future, things, good, good luck

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