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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Mark Twain
Regret

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Mark Twain
Regret, Hero, Simple

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Mark Twain
Regret, Future, Past
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Mark Twain
Funny, Regret, Humorous
Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Mark Twain
Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Mark Twain
Regret, Hero, Men
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Mark Twain
Regret, Editors, Charity
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Mark Twain
Regret, Opportunity, Thinking
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.787, Jazzybee Verlag

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Mark Twain
Regret, Rome, Firsts
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 17, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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