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• When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doubt, May, Trouble

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.99, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Curiosity, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Chance, Language

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Talking, Littles, Too Much

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• There are two angels that attend unseen
  Each one of us, and in great books record
  Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
  The good ones, after every action closes
  His volume, and ascends with it to God.
  The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
  Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
  The record of the action fades away,
  And leaves a line of white across the page.
  Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
  It cannot be recalled. It is already
  Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
  The rest is yours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Believe, Sunset

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

  Jean Kerr

  Horse, Way, Toys

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• The process of biblical change, explained in God's Word, begins when you repent of your sin and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given you everything you need to make the changes in your life that will please Him and will lead to His blessings. As you continue to obey God's Word, biblical change toward maturity will occur in your life until you see Jesus face to face.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Believe, Biblical

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• Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Sin, Feels

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• As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins. Then, in prayer, ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

  C. Scott Grow

  Prayer, Mistake, Loss

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• What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Liars, Water, Trouble

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• People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

  Samuel Richardson

  Anger, People

  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.94

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• As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Humble, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.193

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• We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Littles, Too Much

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Sleep, Bed Of Roses

  Francis Quarles (1859). “Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author”, p.23

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• You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

  Abu Nuwas

  Mad, Tears, Want

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• Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Progress, Lasts

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Gambling, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• Muslims who convert to Christianity are not protected. That carries capital punishment. He would be given the opportunity to repent, and the Sharia court would need to determine if he was really a Muslim in the first place, did he know what he was doing, and once all of that has been determined, there is capital punishment for that in Islam.

  Anjem Choudary

  Opportunity, Islam, Determined

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Evil, Laughing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.

  Wilhelm Grimm

  Sin, Forgiven, Acknowledge

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2013). “Complete Fairy Tales”, p.13, Routledge

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• Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of love and tenderness. Envision with me the Savior’s embrace as I read His words: “Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?

  Mervyn B. Arnold

  Encouragement, Names, May

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• As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Children, Lying

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• He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Needs, Angry

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.181

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