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• Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.

  Andrew Dobson

  Time Management, Time Passes, Staying

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• ... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'

  Nathaniel Branden

  Loyalty, Intellectual, Followers

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• Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

  Anthony of Padua

  Religious, Eye, Bird

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• The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Europe, Political

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• I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Thinking, World And Love

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• As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Joy, World, Dominion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Swanwick, Henry George Bohn (1860). “Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont”, p.273

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• Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Humble, Proud

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• When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for
  one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny.
  Alas, don't spoil this precious moment.
  Moments like this are very, very rare.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Finding Yourself, Beloved

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• There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Book, Joy

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• Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Educational, Common Sense, Commodity

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• Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

  Ernest Bramah

  Lying, House, Eating

  Ernest Bramah (2011). “The Wallet of Kai Lung”, p.243, The Floating Press

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• Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.

  F.B. Meyer

  Jesus, Past, Blood

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• Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

  A.C. Grayling

  Winning, Two, People

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• A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

  John Szarkowski

  Done, Photographer, Best Work

  "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art". Book by John Szarkowski, 1973.

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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• If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

  Eleanora Duse

  Movie, Art, Mistake

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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Cities, Paris

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• I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Children, Flower

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• Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kindness, Be Kind, Wanted

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• Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

  Glenway Wescott

  Running, Long, Luck

  Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

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• Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?” He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. “Alas! Ear wax!

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Thinking, Toffee

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• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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