"To bewail the loss of a person we……" — Jean de la Bruyere

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• To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the… — Aeschylus
• We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the… — Nicolas Steno
• To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I
• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. — Sophocles
• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? — Sophocles
• Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly… — Khalil Gibran
• It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency… — David Riesman
• We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. — Mason Cooley
• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the… — W. Somerset Maugham

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