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that, there is nothing you do spiritually that is in vain,
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Deut: 32:47: For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days
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forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the
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You should be on my side, you've gone over to the natives, I'm trying to at least retain peaceful contact with them, not wall ourselves in some enclave or set out on a vain mission to rescue the motherland
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“Not again,” Henry said as he lifted up the paper and got a napkin, trying in vain to wipe the jam off the paper and succeeding only in smearing it around even more
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We are not in this world to passively drift with the tides of ever changing events, to aggressively fulfill useless desires in a vain attempt to express limited personal powers
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Empty scrawls and letters punctured into their soft, vain flesh by lazy, fat monks willing to sell their souls for a few dollars
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And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do
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the city, the watchman waketh but in vain
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My still damp jeans and shorts lay at the foot of the bed and I put them in the bucket in a vain attempt to confine their ill-humours
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I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress
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Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party
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I try to make her change her mind, assuring her that I have been in this cafeteria before, that the environment is alright, that there is no danger -in vain: Helen remains as solid as a rock
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I appreciated his attempt to cheer me up at this hard time -but it was in vain: I was still feeling miserable, as if all the whole world were falling apart before me
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Even though I searched for her, it was always in vain
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Paul wrote, “We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain” ( 2 Corinthians
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He tries yet again to reach out to the man, then to Grace and his brother, but it's all in vain
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Yet I tried again, in vain; my gun was nothing but a burden now and I threw it down in dismay
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Shells: Full shells indicate success, provided that you work hard for it; empty shells bode vain hopes and loss of money
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Wall: If it stands in you way, it means obstacles and vain hopes; if you jump over it, success and victory await you
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I am all those moments when the poor creatures realise that everything is in vain
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into the barn but all was in vain
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calling a name in vain hope of command
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Nowadays, looking good is not any more a factor of being vain but is already considered
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‘Then it is up to us to ensure that his life was not in vain
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She was juggling in vain with a pile of parcels and bags that seemed have a life of its own
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Your work has not been in vain, Lintze
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’ I said, trying to reproduce his exact words ‘But that it would not be in vain … or something like that
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"Does it bother you that I'm so vain?" she asked
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Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains
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Their love was born of hope and that hope always took the form of imagined blue lines and smiling doctors, but their loving was in vain
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the home, where he constantly battled with the carers in a vain
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“Sisters!” She cried out in her pain, “My sisters, you have not died in vain!” She moaned loudly and twisted about
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“I like you Captain Alexei,” she told him on their journey to Aura, “true, you have a vain and swaggering style, but you also have a sharp mind
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that the intellect has struggled with in vain
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He looked at Mya; I am not being vain Mya
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and smiling doctors, but their loving was in vain
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For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends
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She tried in vain to move her right arm and willed herself to stop the screaming and move away from the car
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They made months of attempts to get in but in vain
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‘Then I have waited in vain
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There were any number of people in any number of apartment trees around this yacht basin who could certainly watch them, but Bethai was impossibly vain about her breasts and probably loved to have the public watch her get them exercised
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a vain attempt to stem the flow of blood
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The birds sing in vain
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They saw her leave, they heard the news that my pleas were in vain
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Again, she crawled to a near halt but her fears were all in vain
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that this was a vain hope, but he kept his reservations to
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Heather tried in vain to pull free
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Confused, he had gone to the arrivals area and then tried to correct his mistake in vain; linguistic difficulties sealed his fate
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open in the vain hope that our minds would find
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Not only vain, it was a direct violation of Dertois Law
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The vain hopes of gaining some of the great prizes is the sole cause of this
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The same quantity of silver, it may perhaps be said, will, in the present times, even according to the account which has been here given, purchase a much smaller quantity of several sorts of provisions than it would have done during some part of the last century ; and to ascertain whether this change be owing to a rise in the value of those goods, or to a fall in the value of silver, is only to establish a vain and useless distinction, which can be of no sort of service to the man who has only a certain quantity of silver to go to market with, or a certain fixed revenue in money
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"Then my journey was not in vain," he grinned
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Those who believe that their involvement is not worthwhile, that their life is vain, that their absence would make no difference in the humanity are absolutely wrong
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Vain toils! their impious folly dared to prey
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He tried in vain to wipe them away, her skin already cold to the touch
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They tried in vain to pry Zarko loose from holding her
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He was a deeply flawed man, true -- jealous, vain, self-centered, ineffective
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And once more, the latter shook off the spell, this time appearing vaguely irritated by the vain attempts
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What if it were someone who’d grown obsessed with having her? Captain Hycron? He was taller than this man and vain about the way he dressed
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After studying the map in the commander’s tent for a few more minutes in a vain effort to stave off boredom, he made his way to the firepit and took a seat
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Their bones might be found some decades later by treasure hunters and thrill seekers, testaments to a naive and vain hope
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The natural advantages which one country has over another, in producing particular commodities, are sometimes so great, that it is acknowledged by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them
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A more direct interpretation may mean that you are being too vain
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After all the anxiety, however, which they have excited about this, after all the vain attempts of almost all trading nations to turn that balance in their own favour, and against their neighbours, it does not appear that any one nation in Europe has been, in any respect, impoverished by this cause
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If the mind has conditions for happiness that are impossible to meet, then a person can bounce from one activity to another, searching in vain for what will provide the happiness he or she seeks
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But plainly observing that it was in vain, she sighed and nodded
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All the members of the administration besides, trade more or less upon their own account; and it is in vain to prohibit them from doing so
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She herself had considered it, but wondered if it would make her seem vain, and not the best example to set to those of her patents who were insecure about their looks
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He pulled on his jacket, ran his fingers through his hair in a vain attempt to tidy it a little, and then set off to the medical centre, grabbing his overcoat as he went out into the icy night air
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Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else
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In the two verses above, the words “void” and “in vain” share the same Hebrew word “Tohoo”, which means empty
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened
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They waited in vain as the passengers exited the plane
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That the public revenue of Great Britain can never be completely liberated, or even that any considerable progress can ever be made towards that liberation, while the surplus of that revenue, or what is over and above defraying the annual expense of the peace establishment, is so very small, it seems altogether in vain to expect
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Empress of the Office, where she spent most mornings on the red willow love seat that faces my desk, raising her regal head only at unfamiliar sounds: in winter, the heavy snow sliding off the metal roof and crashing to the deck below, startling us both; in early spring, the northern flickers trying in vain to pluck insulation for their nests from the roof vents; a heavy summer rain; the grinding noise of the propane truck making its first delivery in fall
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I tried pouring both at the front door but knew it was in vain with the rain pitter-pattering on the roof and porch
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James River some time before, and that further hostilities would be in vain
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He is vain to the extreme, constantly preening and categorically avoiding mud and the outdoors
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He was also, however, a vain and cruel man, who had no problem at all with the German princes in and around his principality torturing and killing peasants and heretics
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“Of all the hard headed, vain
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That did sound a little vain
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Esther tried to straighten them but in vain, Nathan just kept on jiggling
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It was indeed a fall to the pride of that plenipotent monarch and his royal mother, to whom many a tortured victim had pleaded in vain for life, and at whose feet the very chiefs had to prostrate themselves, before they dared speak
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The Mayor knew that the Sheriff really ran Thimble Down, but was too vain to say it out loud
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roused to secure his return, it was aroused in vain
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"Such are but vain shows and not for those of us who believe in holier
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They tried mightily, but in vain to get pass us
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trying in vain to pick up something to eat
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The Custodian's body arched dramatically as he tore at his throat, his mouth opening and closing in a vain attempt at breathing
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I hoped in vain
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In another one I left all my paperwork that had to be handed in somewhere and I rushed around in vain trying to find it
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In a low, faltering voice, he explained how he had to continue his search for Boddaert's Magic now that winter had ended, and all of her entreaties had been in vain, because the young boar had remained adamant
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Searching in vain for they know not what, hoping for a cure that shall never come
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Your follow-up question, why do animals suffer in vain; that is to say, without heavenly hope, may be answered in this manner: 1) an animal does not hope because it lacks higher purpose and meaning
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It suffers in vain because, for reasons mentioned above, it is unable to aspire for hope
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But her pleas were in vain, because Frank seemed to be beyond reason, somewhere else