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“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.” Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta
“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.” Sophocles, Antigone

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