Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
James Thomson (1)
Quotes , Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 995)
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If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder
John Bunyan
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Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back
Bonnell Thornton
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But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11)
quran
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O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss, impute it not!
The best may err, but you are good.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act V, sc. 4)
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes
the virtuous from the wicked.
[It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.]
Vittorio Alfieri
Quotes , Source: Rosmunda (III, 1)
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Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
Bidpai (Pilpay)
Quotes , Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
George Crabbe
Quotes , Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III, Boys at School, last line)
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When prodigals return great things are done.
A.A. Dowty
Quotes , Source: The Siliad, in Beeton's "Christmas Annual"
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I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
A.A. Dowty
Quotes , Source: The Siliad, in Beeton's "Christmas Annual"
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When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Ode to Adversity
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Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 65)
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Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Robert Herrick
Quotes , Source: Hesperides--Penitence
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God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,
And light the wandering out of stony ways.
John Masefield
Quotes , Source: Widow in the Bye Street (pt. VI)
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When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 90)
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He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with
a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have
gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without
having a will by him.
Plutarch
Quotes , Source: Life of Cato (vol. II, p. 495), (Langhorne's translation)
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