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• Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

  Honore de Balzac

  Faults, Repentance, Ends

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• Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Regret, Long

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

  Winston Churchill

  Israel, Cost, Today

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• On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

  Jean Racine

  Worry, Thrones

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• Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

  Tom Peters

  Sweat, Mastery, Able

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• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  William Cowper

  Regret, Eggs, Pleasure

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• Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Tree, Tears

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4071, e-artnow

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• There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Second Chance, Chances In Life, Feels

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.344, Penguin

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• Repentance is accepted remorse.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Accepted, Repentance

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• There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying, Heart, Feelings

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.68

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• Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

  Enid Blyton

  Kindness, Punishment, Wish

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• Remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Poison

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

  Anita Loos

  Business, Shows, Therapy

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Faces, Crime, Retribution

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.820, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

  Juvenal

  Strong, Men, Sin

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.464

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• Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

  William Shakespeare

  Horror, Abandon

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Perspective, Another Man

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

  Walter Scott

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.101

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  Karl Kraus

  Christian, Lust, Morality

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

  Joseph Joubert

  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

  Charles Lamb

  Heaven, Feelings, Hell

  "Irish melodies". Book by Thomas Moore, part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers, 1815.

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• Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
  [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Adversity, Sleep, Wake Up

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