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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. - William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. – William Cowper

Other quotes by William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

Category:
Goodbye
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William Cowper
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper

Category:
Happiness
Author
William Cowper
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Regret & Remorse
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Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. – Charles Dickens

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Regret & Remorse

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. – Arthur Brisbane

Category:
Regret & Remorse

Its the things I might have said that fester. – Clemence Dane

Category:
Regret & Remorse

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. – Charles I

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Regret & Remorse

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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. – Allen West

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This…is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it is present with thy Lord, thy purposes, thy hopes. – Edgar Cayce

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A friend is, as it were, a second self. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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