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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feet, Coach, Civilized

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf

Life, Time, Money

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

Truth, Beginning, Virtue

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Give, Fail

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

Trust, Government, Job

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan

Money, Two, Matter

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

Show, Though, Left

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

Live, Find, Away

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot

Life, Knowledge, Wisdom

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Bad, Away, Worst

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis

Loneliness, Powerful, Deep

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Art, She

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness, Mean, Different

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin

Old, Memories, Disease

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba

Spiritual, Real, Path

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard

Him, Call, Answer

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh

Work, Mind, Heart

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
Steve Jobs

Success, Business, Two

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
Bill Cosby

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

Life, Trust, Emotional

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs

Dark, Dead, Next

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck

Two, Total, Charm

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Great, Anyone

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

Words, Using, Edge

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Greatest, Christian, Service

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Great, Battle, Moral

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