"His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Regret, Imagination, Idea, Wisdom

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"His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever."

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"Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Time lost can never be regained."

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"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Comparison, Contentment, Success

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To waste time is to become wasted."

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"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."

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"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating. Funeral marches to the grave."

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"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."

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"Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life."

"Time lost can never be regained."

"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."

"To waste time is to become wasted."

"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

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"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

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"There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid."

"The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away."

"Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating. Funeral marches to the grave."

"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."