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«Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.»
«The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.»
«Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Knowledge,
Mind,
Thought,
Understanding,
Words
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«Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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effect, in vain, select, selects, vain
«Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.»
«On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Power,
Truth
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«No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Preachers and Preaching
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«Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.»
«No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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«They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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enforce, in vain, scarce, tongues
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