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“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

World Enough Wisdom Spiritual Death Lying Hate Regret Gratitude Kissing Dear Determined Deathbed Persia I Am Determined

Author:Hafez

“One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.”

Source: The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill

“Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.”

War States Reason Age Lasts Games Names Nations Regret Hero Stones Raises Dear Debt Decay Everlasting Medal Rust Wreaths

Book:The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

“Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.”

Ifs Trying Fun Attitude Sweet Regret Dear Bread Bitter Cake Cheerfulness

Book:The Portable Louisa May Alcott

Source: The Portable Louisa May Alcott

“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.”

Long Night Regret Sorrow Errors Dear Ghost Remembrance Gloomy Spooky

Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield

“Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!”

Firsts Sweet Regret Kissing Lips Dear Remembered Fancy Hopeless First Love After Death Deep Love

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”

People Knows Years Lost Know How Regret Lucky Waste Lifetime Dear Good Times Great People Lucky You Lost You Good Years

Book:The Long Road Home

Source: The Long Road Home

“Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.”