Lamented Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity…
— John Quincy Adams
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It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
— James Madison
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They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great…
— George Washington
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Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,…
— Ken Wilber
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As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
— Joanna Hoffman
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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
— Laozi
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After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if…
— Norman Macbeth
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The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat…
— Oliver Herford
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It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.
— Michael Cerveris
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in,…
— William Godwin
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see…
— William Shakespeare
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Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
— E.D. Baker
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Who Wrote These Lamented Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Lamented Quotes as follows: