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“We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.”

Years Justice Judgment Gains Experience Vain

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.”

Knows Prove Gains Rounds Profit Vain Crowns Nodding Ostriches

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too well to end in vain: Is the gain small then? Love laughs at "never", Outlives our life, exceeds the span Appointed to mere mortal man: All which love is and does and can Is all in all then.”

Men Giving Wells Doe Ends Pain Joy Love Is Laughing Our Lives Gains And Love Mere Mortals Vain Exceed Mere Mortals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.”

Ifs Men Want Suffering Trouble Shadow Gains Victim Criminals Vain

Author:Mark the Evangelist

“Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.”

Believe Children Ideas Self Order Jesus Effort Wonderful Gains Favors Vain Hopeful Sinner Vague Dependence Connecting Child Of God Favor Of God Vague Ideas

Book:Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

“And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.”

Loses Virtue Honest Gains Intelligent Brave Peaceful Vain Selfless Passive Factions Candor Stifling Dauntless Erudite Abnegation Amity Inconsiderate

Author:Veronica Roth

“Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.”

Heart Soul Matter Dies Prayer Conditions Praying Gains Presses Perseverance Bounds Quitting Vain Repeats Repetition Urgent Our Prayers Heart And Soul

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.”

Trying Matter Science Simple Results Numbers Quality Theory Huge Promise Gains Appreciate Communicate Scales Experiments Vain Abstract Dimensions Permit Predictions Regularity Pendulums

Author:Leon Foucault