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«Nothing is eternal, alas, except eternity»
Author: Paul Forte
| Keywords:
alas
«Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis»
«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life,
Mankind,
Youth
| Keywords:
alas, delay, fang, fangs, grinning, in a moment, obtain, perishes, release, surprising, The Conduct of Life, unstable
«Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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alas, bare, bleak, bleakest, Come and Go, fade, fade away, fading away, loveliest, plain, rapidly, round, shadows, The Shadows, tom, winter
«Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Poetry
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alas, easy, everywhere, looking, looking at, on paper, paper, poetry, putting, Putts, surrounds
«Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.»
«Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!»
«O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.»
Author: John Donne
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alas
«Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abstract, alas, crowd, gathering, gatherings, Gathering The, Human eye, impression, millions, ordinarily, sensual, superiority, The Crowd
«Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alas, chastisement, chastisements, gaol, resemblance, whence, who are you
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