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Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.35

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.45

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

In my mind, I've never lost a fight.

"Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

"The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

John Milton (1735). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.248

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

In L. Kronenberger 'The extraordinary Mr Wilkes' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 2 'The Ruling Class'