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'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.': J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lost Road
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Remember that lost time does not return.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
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Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.: William Graham Sumner (1840 - 1910)
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

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