REGRET FOR MISUSED OPPORTUNITIES
Jacob Marley expresses regret for misusing life's opportunities, stating that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused. He laments not raising his eyes to the blessed Star and not helping the poor, indicating remorse for not acting benevolently during his life.
JACOB MARLEY
'Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh, such was I!'