“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.” LooksBookLightPainBlindDelightVainEyesight Book:Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series Source: Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series
“We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?” MenLooksFaithFallWiseFlowerCastsVainButterflyCriedBlast Author:Richard Watson Gilder
“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.” LooksCountryWholeWould BePastHumanityPowerfulPureFlowToleranceGenerosityVainStreamsBroadsEuropean Countries Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.” MenWorldFeelsHumansLooksMayHomeActionMovingCertainComfortFameOrdinaryIndependentIndependenceCurrentsSpreadVainAweConventionsIndifferentApprehensionHuman ActionsJurisdictionUntamed Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches