The woman that deliberates is lost.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.31.

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)
St Luke15:4^5.

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)
St  John17:12.

'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
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Boy Lost'.

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

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  'Peschiera'.

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

-Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline
  Poe¤  sies,'L'Isolement'.

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
  Antony speaking of his friendship with Dollabella.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

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)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

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

-Frost, Robert Lee
Quoted in Louis Untermeyer Robert Frost:  A Backward Look (1964).

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

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

But there's no love lost between us.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  She Stoops to Conquer, act 4, sc.1.

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

-Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich
  Oblomov, pt.4, ch.2 (translated by David Magarshak).

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

-Greer, Germaine
  The Female Eunuch,'Soul:  Womanpower'.

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
  She, ch.26 'What  We Saw', narrator's note.

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

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.5.

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
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.1.

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
  The Godwits Fly, ch.3.

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

-James, Henry
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

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

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Nov. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

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

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses.