Top Repentance Quotes
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond
Anne Sophie Swetchine 
Ambrose Bierce 
William Hazlitt 
Desmond Harrington 
John Dryden All Repentance Quotes
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
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Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon
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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Charles Simmons
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