Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Source: In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.