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I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who… — Charles Spurgeon
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They… — Dennis Potter
Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to… — Daniel Gilbert
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and,… — William Allen White
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you… — Umberto Eco
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others. — Emile Gaboriau
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? — Jean-Baptiste Say
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional… — John Maynard Keynes
I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document,… — Steven Morrissey
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of… — Margaret Thatcher
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully… — Bruce Sterling
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end… — Bryan Magee
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy. — John B. Tabb
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. — Robert L. Park
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and… — Francis Pharcellus Church
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil… — John T. Flynn
The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the… — Thomas D
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. — Fridtjof Nansen

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