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«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.»
Author: Henry George
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«How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.»
«Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past»
«He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person»
«Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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«Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, / And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.»
Author: Bible
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«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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