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“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“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

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

Wells Made Pleasure Behinds Sweet Regret Taste Coffee Cups Bitterness Idle Coffee Cup Aroma

Author:Anthony Capella

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.”

“Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?”

Long Enough Sweet Regret Lifetime Affair Love Affair Sweet Love

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“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

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?”

Ifs Mean Made Dies Left Sweet Regret

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.”

Opportunity Lost Lines Gone Forever Sweet Regret Kissing Series Notes Delicate Moonlight Sour

Book:The Battle of Jericho

Source: The Battle of Jericho

“He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret.”

Looks Long Faces Girl Sweet Regret Sorry Disappointment Sigh

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”

“At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?”

Thinking Feels Persons Enough Sweet Regret Insane Enjoyed Ache

Author:Jess Walter

“Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.”

Hard Past Forget Love You Sweet Regret Hot Forgiving Sticks Hip Hop Rap Coffee Never Forget Forget It Never Regret Love You Like I Love You Like Anything Worth Having

Author:Ghostface Killah