#repent

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Repentance is but want of power to sin. ↗

— John Dryden

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ↗

— Voltaire

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

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I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

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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

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