Quotes with vainly

  • In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Edward Hoagland There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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