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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Charles Dickens
Regret, Hair, Age
Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Charles Dickens
Regret, Opportunity, Space
J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1244, e-artnow

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Charles Dickens
Regret, Hard Times, Long
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7501, Delphi Classics

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

Charles Dickens
Christian, Regret, Mean
Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Charles Dickens
Regret, Night, Errors
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.577

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