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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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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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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!
(Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general, president. Speech, broadcast June 18, 1940, from London. Speeches of General de Gaulle (1941).
De Gaulle's famous words were not part of the official typescript for this speech, and not issued in written form until the following month.)
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in The Lost Ones, p. 7, Grove Press (1972).)
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).
Written in 1943.)
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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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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.
(Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941), Anglo-Irish journalist. repr. in Corruptions of Empire, pt. 1 (1988). "Bwana Vistas," Harper's (New York, Aug. 1985).)
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Religions get lost as people do.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Fourth Notebook, February 26, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
(Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. repr. In Works of Addison, ed. R. Hurd (1883). Marcia, in Cato, act 4, sc. 1 (1713).)
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