“Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past”
Chinese Proverbs
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
Leo Rosten
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
Florence Nightingale
“Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues”
Agesilaus
“Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
William Shakespeare
“Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen”
William Penn
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