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Tag Name "Remorse" (161)

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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
William Carlos Williams
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
William Cowper
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Remorse weeps tears of blood.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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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
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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
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Remorse for what is done is useless.
Philo
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Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Remorse is virtue's root its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William C. Bryant
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Remorse begets reform.
William Cowper
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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
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
Winifred Holtby
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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
Emily Dickinson
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
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Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.
Pascal Bruckner
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
Helen Prejean
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful it ends all.
Honore de Balzac
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
William Butler Yeats
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