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“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.”

Source: Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind

“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”

Feels Should Looks Earth Death Lying Poor Enemy Regret Spring Errors Graves Peaceful Resentment Defects Handful Bosoms Recollection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.”

Giving Trying Made Earth Chance Mistake Possibility Regret Give Me Convince Made A Mistake I Regret Another Chance I Made A Mistake

Book:Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel

Source: Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel

“I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.”

“I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”

Source: The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”

Source: Best Ghost Stories

“... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.”

Use Earth Lasts Heaven Tears Regret Cost Letters Graves Mourning Sinner Afterlife Closest Lucy

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.”

Children Earth Tears Regret

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.”

People Mean Littles Different Happens Earth Accepting Struggle Sky Acceptance Regret Seasons Live Life Beast Day To Day Whatever Happens Earth And Sky

Book:Wild Swan

Source: Wild Swan

“...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Earth Heaven Can Do Prayer Know How Regret Praying Overcoming Preaching Serving God Godly Heaven And Earth Overrated God Prayer

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

Stills Earth Regret Months Mets Adversity Trials Holiday Dozen Twelve Bows New Year Harsh Remembrance Fury Jury Blast January Happy New Year Chimes

Book:The New Monthly Magazine

Source: The New Monthly Magazine