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• Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Opiates

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.65

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• Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

  Andy Andrews

  Reset Button, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

  Robert D. Hare

  Opportunity, Views, Psychology

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

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• A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Wise, Regret

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• Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  People, Beef, Alive

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

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• The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Religious, Islamic, Heart

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• Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Years, Numbers, Perfection

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• Pride ruined the angels,
  Their shame them restores;
  And the joy that is sweetest
  Lurks in stings of remorse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Pride, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Loss

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

  Mike Livingston

  Responsibility, Doubt, Rowing

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• A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

  Ken Buck

  Cases, Buyers, Wells

  "Buck stands by controversial remarks" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 17, 2010.

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• No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, People

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

  Pete Hamill

  Book, Ambition, Weather

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• My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

  Snoop Dogg

  Revenge, Domes, Retribution

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• Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Inspire, Religion

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.296

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• It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.

  Khem Veasna

  Punishment, People, Promise

  Facebook profile, December 25, 2013.

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• He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fear, Cowardice, Driven

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.168

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• I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Father, Men, Age

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world... Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Moving, Israel, Thrones

  Khaled Mashal's Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, 2006.

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• I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

  Peter Storey

  Legs, Rivals, Broke

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• I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family - especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.

  Teresa Giudice

  Heartbroken, Daughter, Mean

  "Teresa and Joe Giudice to continue filming 'Real Housewives' until sentencing", www.foxnews.com. March 5, 2014.

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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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