"What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless."

Regret, Mourning, Loss, Values

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"What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless."

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"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."

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"The way of sin is physical death of soul."

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"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been."

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"When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"

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"Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery."

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