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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Society, Debtors

  'The Elements of the Common Law' (1596) preface

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• It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

  Freya North

  Mistake, Way, Persons

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• Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

  Jack Kornfield

  Hurt, Mean, Best Practices

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• Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

  Marianne Williamson

  Karma, Mean, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011

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• Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

  John J. McCloy

  Respect, Mistake, Humble

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• If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Regret, Self

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

  Allen Steele

  Stupid, Mistake, Such Is Life

  Allen Steele (2002). “Coyote”, p.295, Penguin

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• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

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• Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Virtue

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

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• No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Opportunity, Space

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1244, e-artnow

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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• And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

  Julian Barnes

  Feelings, Guilt, Stronger

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.99, Random House

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• It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

  William Penn

  Men, Suffering, Doing Good

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

  Edward Everett

  Glowing, Suffering, Toil

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.159

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• All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

  John Berridge

  Heart, Secret, Decay

  John Berridge (1838). “The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs”, p.424

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• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Obsessed

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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• Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

  Mark Helprin

  Loss, Want Something, Balance

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.522, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice." He laughs weakly. "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.

  Veronica Roth

  Yellow, Laughing, Next

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• I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Desire, Way

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.19

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• There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

  William Hazlitt

  Feelings, Youth, Eternity

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.1

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• Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  God, Forgiveness, Religious

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1955). “WAY TO HAPPY LIVING”

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