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Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. — Matthew Arnold
A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold
It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university… — Ian Mckellen
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make… — Burton Silverman
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask… — Jules Olitski
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God… — C.S. Lewis
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it. — Edward Thomas
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent Van Gogh
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. — Pierre Corneille
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all… — Claude Debussy
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. — E. M. Forster
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race… — Erica Jong
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us… — D. H. Lawrence
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… — T.E. Lawrence
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. — P.J. O'Rourke
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release… — Plautus
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. — Jean Rostand
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! — William Shakespeare

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