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• Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

  Thomas Mallon

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  Interview with Shannon Powers, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

  Jean Cocteau

  Believe, Fall, Inspiration

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• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Spiritual, Eye

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• Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.
  New-made friendships, like new wine,
  Age will mellow and refine.
  Friendships that have stood the test -
  Time and change - are surely best;
  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
  Friendship never knows decay.
  For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
  Once more we our youth renew.
  But old friends, alas! may die,
  New friends must their place supply.
  Cherish friendship in your breast-
  New is good, but old is best;
  Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.

  Joseph Parry

  Friendship, Wine, Wrinkles

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• Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flirting, Inspire, Transport

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• Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

  John R. Rice

  Christian, People, Heaven

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Bird, Feels, Caged

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

  George William Russell

  Trying, Mountain, Sides

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• 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

  Frederick William Thomas

  Love, Art, Believe

  Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117

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• Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

  Paul Samuelson

  School, Men, Air

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• Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Law, Duty, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3006, 谷月社

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• Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Fun, Mind, Endeavor

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Age, Midnight

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

  Joan of Arc

  Ashes, Body, Today

  "Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France". Book by T. Douglas Murray, 1902.

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• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wells, Loveliness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.185, Race Point Publishing

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• My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. ... But melancholy Danes from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.

  Hayden Carruth

  Plato, Men, Personality

  "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".

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• You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Missions, Difficulty

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

  Albert Einstein

  Hurt, Science, Thinking

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• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

  Thomas Hood

  Christian, Atheism, Charity

  Thomas Hood (1845). “Prose and Verse”, p.203

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• Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

  William Shakespeare

  Love, May, Appetite

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Artistic, Craftsman

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• There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

  Winston Churchill

  Rain, Army, Thinking

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 6, p. 6150, 1974.

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