Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]

Even books have their lifetime, of which no one can deprive them. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Chance suggests thoughts; changes deprive us of them: there is no rule for preserving or acquiring them. [ Pascal ]

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. [ Epes Sargent ]

The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. [ Colton ]