During those intermittent moments, when one reflects on

 love lost, opportunities missed, those dear who have passed

a sadness inevitably overwhelms:

a feeling of regret.

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Yet, a thought of a good and constant friend

of emotional and kind support, someone to turn to in time of need,

helps to ease the pain and set things right again.

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Be a good friend, you’re needed more than you might know.

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Sonnet 30

by William Shakespeare

 

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.

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William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

English dramatist and poet

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