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

Regret, Reality, Life, Truth

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

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"I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Regret, Loss, Innocence, Memory

"The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Regret, Comparison, Envy, Loss

"The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

Mystery

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

Life

"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."

Wisdom

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."

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"When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people."

Humor

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."

Persistence

"Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision."

Perception

"What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin.Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it?"

Behavior

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

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