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Losers must have leave to speak.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: The Rival Fools (act I, l. 17)
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Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Conversation (l. 357), referring to story told by Pancirollus of lamp burned in the tomb of Tullia
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For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it comes to light,
In every cranny but the right.
Author: William Cowper
Source: The Retired Cat (l. 95)
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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.
Author: William Cowper
Source: The Retired Cat (l. 95)
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What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: The Scroll
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A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che
la perdita del patrimonie.]
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli)
Source: Del. Prin. (ch. XVII)
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Things that are not at all, are never lost.
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Source: Hero and Leander--First Sestiad (l. 276)
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of Solitude
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!
Author: Motto
Source: over the walls of a school in Germany
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That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
Author: Sir W.F.P. Napier
Source: Montrose and the Covenanters--Montrose's Poems (no. 1, vol. II, p. 566), version of part of work by
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What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a
friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him
further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your
loan or lose your friend.
[Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;
Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.
Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;
Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Trinummus (IV, 3, 43)
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Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 16)
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
[Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,
Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Agamemnon (CXII)
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Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Margaret at V, iv)
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXXVIII, st. 2)
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That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: On Memoriam (pt. VI, st. 2)
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No man can lose what he never had.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Author: Democritus
Source: None
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One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.
Author: Mary Pickford
Source: None
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Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
Source: None
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
Author: Thomas A. Kempis
Source: None
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Author: German Motto
Source: None
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It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Author: Richard Whately
Source: None
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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