Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Loss Quotes

Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

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Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

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The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

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Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Hate Quotes , Loss Quotes

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Loss Quotes , Soul Quotes

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

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