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Life is too short for sighing and regretting. That which is done, we / cannot now undo. Before the sun completes another setting, Life may / have changed its aspect and its hue. Blunders are never mended by / mere fretting; better to start afresh, mistakes forgetting. Life is / too short a single thing to rue. Life is too short for bitterness / and hating. Nothing is gained by venom and despair. 'Tis not a / virtue to be ever prating that worms abide within the blossom fair. / Goodness, forsooth, is not one whit abating, though Cynics give a / jaundiced, twisted rating. Life is too short to entertain dull care. / Life is just long enough for you and me to do our work with energy / and zest. Just long enough for each of us to try to make of it a / helpful, joyous quest; to brighten up, perchance, a neighbour's sky. / Too short for hate; too short for futile sigh. Just long enough to / learn that Love is best.