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"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life." »M. R. Vincent
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"repentance is another name for aspiration." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Nothing spoils a confession like repentance." »Anatole France
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"The sinning is the best part of repentance." »Arab Proverb
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"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible." »Lawana Blackwell
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"repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness." »Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994
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"He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity." »The Talmud
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"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it." »Samuel Johnson
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"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper." »Francis Quarles
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