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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
 That loss is common would not make
 My own less bitter, rather more:
  Too common! Never morning read more 
 That loss is common would not make
 My own less bitter, rather more:
  Too common! Never morning wore
   To evening, but some heart did break. 
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of read more
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.
 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.] 
 Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
 But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.  
 Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
 But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 
The cheerful loser is the winner.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil read more
In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along