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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wish, Desire, Longing

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.

  Steven Furtick

  Today, Tomorrow, Excuse

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2013

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• But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

  Nick Carter

  Who I Am, Gone, Don't Regret

  "Nick Carter Gets Buff". Interview with Marisa Laudadio, people.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.

  Richard Branson

  Simple, Advice, No Regrets

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• Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Opportunity, Design

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• When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, then you are on the way to success.

  Richard Denny

  Thinking, Yesterday, Way

  Richard Denny (2009). “Succeed For Yourself: Unlock Your Potential for Success and Happiness”, p.173, Kogan Page Publishers

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• I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

  Harry Reid

  Choices, Poor, Poor Choices

  "Harry Reid apologizes for "light skinned" remark about Obama". Statement to the Press, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2010.

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• The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

  James Badge Dale

  Opportunity, Stories, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is so weakening as regret.

  James G. Blaine

  Weakening

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• Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.

  Sung Kang

  Life, Simple, Choices

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• To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Past, Whole Life, Satisfied

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• I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

  Tyga

  Past, People, Only Time

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• Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Years, Mind

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• Do not regret what you have done

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Done

  Miyamoto Musashi (2010). “The Complete Book of Five Rings”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Heart, Two, Rivers

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Marriage, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sadness, Rivers, Confession

  Song: Black, Album: Solace

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• You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

  Mitch McConnell

  Memorable, Thinking, May

  "McConnell: ‘You’ll regret this’" by Ramsey Cox, thehill.com. November 11, 2013.

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• In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

  Alfred de Musset

  Dream, Bits

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• Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

  Paul Anka

  Life, Way, My Way

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• Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Drink, Tricks

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• No regrets, only choices.

  Jason Roy

  No Regrets, Choices

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I certainly had qualms about writing my piece in the first place, since I knew I couldn't express my disdain for many of Rev. Falwell's teachings. But I don't regret having written about the sides of Rev. Falwell that had nothing to do with politics or religion - his grandkids, his ministry for ex-alcoholics, his penchant for practical jokes. I think it's important to recognize the humanity in everyone, even those we strongly disagree with.

  Kevin Roose

  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

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• Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
  Where wasted nations raise a single name;
  And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
  From age to age in everlasting debt;
  Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
  To rust on medals, or on stones decay.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Hero, Games

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.36

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• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Night, Soul

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub

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