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• Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour,
  Improve each moment as it flies;
  Life's a short summer-man a flower;
  He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Summer, Time

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.184

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• Alas! is even love too weak
  To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
  Are even lovers powerless to reveal
  To one another what indeed they feel?
  I knew the mass of men conceal'd
  Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
  They would by other men be met
  With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
  I knew they lived and moved
  Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
  Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
  The same heart beats in every human breast!

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Heart, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Poison

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Alas! for love, if thou art all,
  And nought beyond, O earth.

  Felicia Hemans

  Life, Art, Ifs

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

  George Washington

  Dance, Dancing, Wish

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.366

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• Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Struggle, Two, Soul

  Faust pt. 1 "Vor dem Thor" (1808)

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• All the wild sweetness of the flower
  Tangled against the wall.
  It was that magic, silent hour....
  The branches grew so tall
  They twined themselves into a bower.
  The sun shown ... and the fall
  
  Of yellow blossom on the grass!
  You feel that golden rain?
  Both of you could not hold, alas,
  (both of you tried, in vain)
  A memory, stranger. So I pass....
  It will not come again.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Running, Stupid

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”

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• Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

  George Arnold

  Beer, Golden Moments, Dry

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.123

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• The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
  Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
  Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden,
  Without me, will still bear flowers.

  Su Ting

  Spring, Flower, Home

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• Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Views

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Bird, Feels, Caged

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Religious, Nature

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.
  New-made friendships, like new wine,
  Age will mellow and refine.
  Friendships that have stood the test -
  Time and change - are surely best;
  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
  Friendship never knows decay.
  For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
  Once more we our youth renew.
  But old friends, alas! may die,
  New friends must their place supply.
  Cherish friendship in your breast-
  New is good, but old is best;
  Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.

  Joseph Parry

  Friendship, Wine, Wrinkles

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• Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

  Jean Cocteau

  Believe, Fall, Inspiration

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.

  Dennis Potter

  Animal, Important Choices, Political

  "An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994".

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• Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Unique, Emotional, Thinking

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage

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• The night is dark, the waters deep,
  Yet soft the billows roll;
  Alas! at every breeze I weep —
  The storm is in my soul.

  Helen Maria Williams

  Dark, Night, Water

  Helen Maria Williams (1791). “Poems”, p.71

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• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  Umberto Eco

  Mind, Machines, World

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• It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

  John Brown

  Nurse, Suffering, Cases

  Lancet I: 464 (1904)

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Painful, Payment

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

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