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It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
[Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.
Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Agamemnon (242)
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What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
strength to repent.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at III, iii)
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Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Provost at II, ii)
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That it may please you leave these sad designs
To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,
And presently repair to Crosby House;
Where--after I have solemnly interred
At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--
And wet his grave with my repentant tears--
I will with all expedient duty see you.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
[Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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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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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Ambrose Bierce
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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
Henry Miller
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings
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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.
Josh Billings
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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