#vain

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#believe #beneficial #disagreeable #economic #effects

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#common #contrary #erroneous #humble #idea

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#confidence #cut #god #great #his

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#canst #come #fate #life #living

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#just #men #more #sometimes #vain

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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