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You are all a lost generation.

—Stein, Gertrude

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninetyand nine in the wilderness, andgoafter that whichislost, until hefind it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

—Bible (NewTestament)

What aterrifying reflection it is, by theway, that nearlyall our deep love for women who are not our kindred dependsöat any rate, in the first instanceöupon their personal appearances. If we lost them, and found them again dreadful to look on, though otherwise they were the very same, should we still love them?

—Haggard, Sir (Henry) Rider

'Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.'

—Blake,William

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Something there had been, something delicate, wild and far away. But it was shut out behind the doors of yesterday, lost beyond the hills.

—Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

—Newton,John

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not being vice.

—Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford

Now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him.

—Milton,John

Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.

—Synge,John Millington

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

—Greer, Germaine

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectöso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

—Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)

The woodland brook he bounding crossed, And laughed, and shouted,'Lost! lost! lost!'

—Scott, Sir Walter

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts öThe hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day öSits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius öWeary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.

—Smith, Sydney Goodsir

You lost yourability for doing things in childhood† It all beganwithyourinability toputonyoursocksand ended by your inability to live.

—Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich

   Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren. What is not abandoned is never completely lost.

—Schiller, Friedrich

But there's no love lost between us.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

—Bible (NewTestament)

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marksönot that you won or lostö But how you played the game.

—Rice, Grantland

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

—James, Henry

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

—Frost, Robert Lee

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

—Gibbon, Edward

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Prompt me,God, But not yet.When I speak Though it be you who speak Through me, something is lost. The meaning is the waiting.

—Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)

'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all. SeeTennyson 843:34.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

—Thurber,James Grover

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

—Tennyson

We were so clos'd within each other's breasts The rivets were not found that join'd us first. That does not reach us yet: we were so mix'd, As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost; We were one mass; we could not give or take, But from the same; for he was I, I he!

—Dryden,John

One more such victory, and we are lost!

—Pyrrhus of Epirus

So right.OK.We lost.

—Major,John

Ce qu'on donne a'   l'amour est a'   jamais perdu. What one gives in love is forever lost.

—Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline

The woman that deliberates is lost.

—Addison,Joseph