It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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It never came out of the light. I lost it all the way. I'm just happy it hit me in the head. I put my glove up there to protect myself.
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Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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