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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Trials
Robert Southey

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To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
Rank
Leszczynski Stanislaus

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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Pain
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writers and Writing
Henry David Thoreau

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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Curses
Edmund Waller

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Evangelism
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun