Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Loss Quotes, No Friends Quotes

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

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Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

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... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

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