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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.»
Author: Abraham Cowley (Essayist, Poet) | About: Love, Pain | Keywords: in vain, mighty, miss, pains, Tis, vain
«Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.»
«?Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.?»
«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?»
«Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.»
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
«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.»
«A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself»
«A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others»
«All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions»

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