Amends Quotes

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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better. — William Penn
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals. — William Hazlitt
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must… — Bill Vaughan
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? — Tony Judt
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or… — Joan Didion
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends,… — Mark Helprin
So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends. — William Shakespeare
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused — Charles Dickens
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of… — Thomas Brooks
She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for… — Craig Ferguson
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion,… — Khaled Hosseini
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this… — William Shakespeare
The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in… — Jodi Picoult
I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well. — J.R.R. Tolkien
â€¦ that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of… — Amos Oz
A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who… — Katherine Applegate
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is… — Julian Barnes
That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a… — Anthony Kiedis

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