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Jewels being lost are found againe, this never,
T'is lost but once, and once lost, lost for ever.
(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British poet. Hero and Leander (II, l. 85-86). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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If it were lost in άbermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Surprises of the Superhuman.")
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 304 (Minos).)
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Was there ever a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long....
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Hannibal.")
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
(Jacques Barzun (b. 1907), U.S. scholar. Newsweek (New York, Dec. 5, 1955).)
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
(Friedrich Dόrrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist, and trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956).)
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Stephen's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.
(Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), U.S. poet. "The Look," st. 2.)
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If it were lost in άbermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Surprises of the Superhuman.")
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