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The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. Letter to William H. Seward, June 30, 1862. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 295, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
(Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), U.S. philosopher. Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 166 (1973).)
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Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss,
(John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. The Ball Poem (l. 15-16). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise ...
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Continuing to Live.")
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O insupportable and touching loss!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cassius, in Julius Caesar, act 4, sc. 3, l. 151.
On the news of the death of Portia, Brutus's wife.)
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Compensation," Essays, First Series (1841).)
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Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on—our lost narcissism lives on—in our ego ideal.
(Judith Viorst (20th century), U.S. novelist and poet. Necessary Losses, ch. 9 (1986).)
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It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. A light exists in spring (l. 16-20). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
(Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British poet. Lepanto (l. 9-11). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.)
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