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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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. (Quote by - Moorish Proverb)

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Repentance is accepted remorse. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)

No sensible person ever made an apology. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. (Quote by - Old saying)

Forethought is easy, repentance hard. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

The dream is short, repentance long. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)

There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. (Quote by - P. G. Wodehouse)

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! (Quote by - George Crabbe)

Repentance is for little children. (Quote by - Adolf Eichmann)

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. (Quote by - Seneca)

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. (Quote by - Kenneth Scott Latourette)

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)

Repentance follows hasty counsels. (Quote by - Syrus)

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