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“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.”

Looks Book Light Pain Blind Delight Vain Eyesight

Book:Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

Source: Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”

Pain Struggle Sun Eternal Vain Bliss Foolishness

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.”

Mind Pain Sea Vain Sand Idle Mistress Mind Love

Book:The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull

Source: The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull

“Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: Whatever is formed of matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with that individual matter.”

Feels Book Matter Use Would Be Pain Moving Form Dies Individual Perfect Cases Sun Blood Thirds Shining Species Following Vain Sections Propositions Defects Limbs Galen

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!”

World Dream Pain Poor This World Shadow Labor Mere This Life Vain

Book:Heaven On Earth

Source: Heaven On Earth

“Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.”

Pain Hours Ten Anxiety Yoga Illness Vain Pleasant Concentration Resentment Twelve Usefulness Circuits Euphoria Fuse Migraine

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

“If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Action Pain Passion Influence Morality Vain Multitudes Moralist

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.”

Should May Facts Pain Past Causes Pay Regret Sorrow Conscience Vain Fingerprints

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.”

Giving Stills Soul Pain Lord Tears Masters Pride Please Shapes Vain Fiery Cupid Rave

Author:Bryan Procter

“The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.”

Knows Soul Body Pain Names Cry Limits Vain Nerves No Pain Bandages

Author:Vanna Bonta

“They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”

Men Pain Attention Dying Harmony Tongue Breathe Vain Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series