| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. -- Hare & Charles |
| Author:
Hare and CharlesEra:
1830 |
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| A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. -- Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Author:
Machiavelli, NiccoloEra:
1469 |
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| When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. -- Frederick Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, FrederickEra:
1807 |
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| Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. -- St. Gregory I |
| Author:
Gregory I, St.Era:
540 |
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| Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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