Jonathan Edwards

If a man has parted with something which he had, not knowing the worth of it or the need he should have of it, he often can regain it, at least with pains and cost. If a man has been overseen in a bargain and has bartered away or sold something and afterwards repents of it, he may often obtain a release and recover what he had parted with. ? But it is not so with respect to time. When once that is gone, it is gone forever; no pains, no cost will recover it. Though we repent ever so much that we let it pass, and did not improve it while we had it, it will be to no purpose.