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The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a… — Laurence Sterne
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. — Oscar Wilde
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my… — William Shakespeare
The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be — William Shakespeare
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) — Dorothy Parker
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"… — Lloyd Alexander
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. — Jane Austen
...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. — Lloyd Alexander
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily";… — Gregory Maguire
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and… — Charles Darwin
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge… — Louis Pasteur
Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength… — C.S. Lewis
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire
Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie. — James Finn Garner
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and… — Kate DiCamillo
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher

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