If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool

For neither do men live nor die in vain.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

There are no sacrifices in vain. There is a reward even for the effort to do good.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Often, the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

It seemed to him that the Power in which he had vainly trusted among the streets and in the prayer-meetings, was very far away from this land in which he had taken refuge.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love.

And so it is with our own past. It is a labor in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.