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• To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

  Frank Drake

  Beach, Time, Children

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• My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

  Stevie Smith

  Wish, Cold, Muse

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Effort, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hate, Love Is, Hatred

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.

  Randall Jarrell

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Air

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 127), 1955.

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• Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Blow, Sight

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 10 (1807)

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!     No hungry generations tread thee down;   The voice I hear this passing night was heard     In ancient days by emperor and clown:   Perhaps the self-same song that found a path      Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       She stood in tears amid the alien corn;             The same that ofttimes hath     Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam       Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Song, Home, Heart

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Hope, Ideas, Astonishment

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• Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

  John Arbuthnot

  Wise, Prayer, Perfect Days

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• The night comes on that knows not morn,
  When I shall cease to be all alone,
  To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Night, And Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

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• The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

  Robert W. Service

  Lonely, Sunset, Fate

  Robert William Service, “The Land God Forgot”

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Dancer, Brave

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• For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Lasts, Glory

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

  Desmond Morris

  Important, Becoming, Environment

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• Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!

  Robert Greene

  Men, Joy, Fading

  Robert Greene (1977). “The poetry of Robert Greene”

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• Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

  John Milton

  Sight, Midnight, Caves

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 1

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• The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Men, Letters

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.237

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• A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

  William Wordsworth

  Christian, Lying, Pride

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

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• A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

  Paula Fox

  War, Cities, Paris

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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• The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Facts, Cold

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• Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or very marginalized by the group. Your capacity to perceive those kinds of situations and respond to them in a pastoral way is the stuff you are teaching. And even though the kids may appear to be ignoring you, they are very aware of what you are doing and how you are doing it. They are also very aware of what you are missing and not picking up on.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Kids, Missing

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, 'My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Rain, Eye

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• I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Crazy, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.182, Tammara Webber

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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