True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Repentance is accepted remorse.
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