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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.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is read more
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
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.
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere read more
For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it comes to light,
In every cranny but the right.
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.