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“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.” Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta
“remorse is the poison of life.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was.” William Shakespeare, King John
“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse!” John Milton, Paradise Lost

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