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might-have-been

«For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.»
«If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.»
«If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less»
«For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale»
«And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? / For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.»
«But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? / For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: might-have-been, ointment
«And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; / Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.»
«For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: / Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.»
«A man is not scared of the 'Past' i.e. bygone days, no matter how bitter it might have been. »
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: bygone, i.e., I E, might-have-been
«It is never too late to become what you might have been»

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