Alas Quote by Silas Weir Mitchell

“Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.” quote by Silas Weir Mitchell — Download Open image

“Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as…

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Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

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Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

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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 give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would…

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still…

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The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden…

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“World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.”

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will…

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