REPENTANCE

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(958 votes)  It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(881 votes)  Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(871 votes)  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
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(663 votes)  Repentance is accepted remorse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine
1782-1857, Russian Author

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(633 votes)  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
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(618 votes)  Repentance won't cure mischief.

Gaelic Proverb
Sayings of Gaelic Origin

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(595 votes)  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 IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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

Sir Thomas Browne
1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher

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(574 votes)  He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(568 votes)  The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(564 votes)  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 opposition of our fantasies.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(563 votes)  Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(552 votes)  Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(545 votes)  Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(531 votes)  Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

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

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(524 votes)  He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Francis Quarles
1592-1644, British Poet

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(523 votes)  But with morning cool repentance came.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(520 votes)  Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(516 votes)  Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

J. C. Macaulay

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(503 votes)  Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(492 votes)  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

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(489 votes)  The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Walter Brower

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(486 votes)  Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Willard Beecher

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(476 votes)  True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Francis H. Bradley
1846-1924, British Philosopher

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(473 votes)  True repentance is to cease from sinning.

Ambrose of Milan

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