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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

- Old saying

There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.

- Ogden Nash

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.

- Matthew Prior

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

- Josh Billings

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

- Arabic proverb

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.

- Ambrose Bierce

Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

No sensible person ever made an apology.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Repentance is for little children.

- Adolf Eichmann

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

- John Dryden

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.

- Katharine Mansfield

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

- Spanish proverb

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

- P. G. Wodehouse

God will pardon me. It's his business.

- Heinrich Heine

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

- Libby Holman