“ I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong — it can end everything. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. ”
- Lope de Vega- Copy
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“ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. ”
- Robert Smith- Copy
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“ A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. ”
- Thomas Ybarra- Copy
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“ Guilt is anger directed at ourselves — at what we did or did not do. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. ”
- Kate Winslet- Copy
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“ Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
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“ God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ”
- Charles Williams- Copy
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“ O my youth abandonedLike a withered garlandHere comes the seasonOf regret and reason. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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