“ People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
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“ Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. ”
- Thomas Secker- Copy
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“ To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. ”
- Jean Baptiste Moliere- Copy
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“ When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. ”
- Jackie Mason- Copy
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“ Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hath not promised life till we repent. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ How pleasant it is, at the end of the day, No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say, That my time has been properly spent. ”
- Ann Taylor- Copy
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“ I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ”
- Xenocrates of Chalcedon- Copy
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