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Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.
Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never read more
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
[Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,
Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay read more
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.
No man can lose what he never had.
No man can lose what he never had.
