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Bad men are full of repentance.

Repentance

PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

4.7 · 28 votes · 194 reads

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Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING

Repentance

AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

3.7 · 30 votes

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Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

Repentance

PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

4.1 · 40 votes

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Repentance

Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

4.1 · 51 votes · 181 reads

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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Repentance

PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

5.0 · 58 votes

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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Repentance

Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Repentance

ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbours.

Repentance

ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

4.2 · 56 votes

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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Repentance

WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

3.9 · 38 votes

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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an oppositio

Repentance

PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

3.7 · 20 votes

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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.8 · 57 votes · 8 reads
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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
Henry Miller
AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century
4.6 · 22 votes · 87 reads
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century
4.0 · 49 votes · 152 reads
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beecher
PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century
3.9 · 11 votes · 48 reads
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
PoetBritish1631 · 17th century
3.7 · 39 votes · 61 reads
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.5 · 24 votes · 164 reads
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century
3.2 · 33 votes · 1 reads
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