“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“When I saw that rage was vainAnd to sulk would nothing gain,Turning many a trick and wileI began to soothe and smile.”
William Blake
“I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.”
Saul Bellow
“Those who do not serve the True Guru waste away their lives in vain. O Nanak, the Lord does just as He pleases. No one has any say in this.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not lived wholly in vain, he remarked. "If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity. The air of London is the sweeter for my presence."”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.”
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