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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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“God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Beneficiis (VI, 23)
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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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“Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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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) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“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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“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”
Francis H. Bradley Quotes |
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“Forethought is easy, repentance hard.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.”
Italian Proverb Quotes |
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“Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.”
J. C. Macaulay Quotes |
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“Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.”
Moorish Proverb Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.”
Henry Miller Quotes |
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“True repentance is to cease from sinning.”
Ambrose Of Milan Quotes |
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“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes |
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“Repentance is another name for aspiration.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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