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“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.”

Pride Glory Shame Command Vanity Vain Folly Prologue Lackeys

Author:Francis Quarles

“Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.”

Men Way Hard Light Life Is Easy He Man Perfection Shame Vain Purity Gossip Vicious Detachment Crow Vigor Life Is Hard Life Is Easy Meddlesome

Author:Gautama Buddha

“People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.”

People Passion Worst Shame Dare Envy Vain

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.”

Thinking Heart May Soul Father Loss Anxiety Shame Burden Vain Necks Dread Heart And Soul Weariness Yoke Love Loss

Book:The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works

Source: The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works

“In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.”

Ifs Life Wells Pain Names Causes Pleasure Wind Glory Shame Endure Deeds Worthy Vain Void Fades Reign Foul

Book:Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

Source: Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

“Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.”

Black Morning Seeing Doors Fashion Glory Deserve Shame Shoes Vain Meals Ashamed Thrive Despise Purple Novelty Disgrace

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives