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• Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

  Caroline Knapp

  Lost, Merry, Concepts

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• Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wise, Lying, Wrath

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• It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

  Algernon Blackwood

  Beautiful, Moon, Evil

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Book, Garden, Tears

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• Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

  Judy Collins

  Sorry, Fun, Writing

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• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Wall, Giving Love

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• Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

  Pola Negri

  Loss, People, Financial

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death, Stars, Writing

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• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Television

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sleep, Thinking, Grieving

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• Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

  Louis Sullivan

  Men, Sound, Fabric

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• Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Lord, States

  'Interior Castle' Mansion 6, ch. 11, para. 6; translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, 1921

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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• Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

  Tony Levin

  Focus, Awkward, Done

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

  Hector Berlioz

  Time, Children, Masters

  Letter to Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, 12 Aug. 1856. Sometimes quoted as "Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

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• Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Butterfly, Wheels, Satire

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  Alexander Pope

  Hurt, Lawyer, Scribes

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.111

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• What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Coward, Ancestry

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

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• Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

  Ovid

  Guilt, Difficult, Betray

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• It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  House, Ancestry, Ancient

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, CXXXIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 23-25, 44 B.C..

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• You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

  Charles Lamb

  Play, Age, Cards

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• Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

  William C. Bryant

  Passion, Heart, Men

  William Cullen Bryant, “Song From The Spanish Of Iglesias”

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• Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bread Of Life, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Innocence, Poor, Substitutes

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