“Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost ca be both ennobling and painful.”
Lost History, p. 1
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“Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain
That has been, and may be again.”
The Solitary Reaper.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“A world made to be lost, —
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.”
"The Hill of Venus".
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
“In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.”
Source: The Story of Civilization