“ Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. ”
- John Dewey- Copy
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“ Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
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“ Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave. ”
- Archbishop Trench- Copy
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“ Efforts to come up with a name resulting in a baseball acronym like RBI or something similar proved fruitless. Consequently, we became the Society for American Baseball Research. ”
- Leonard Robert Davids- Copy
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“ Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. ”
- Adelaide Proctor- Copy
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“ Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence. ”
- Hugh Blair- Copy
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