Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Quote by John Dryden

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Even victors are by victory undone

Even victors are by victory undone

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

They can conquer who believe they can

They can conquer who believe they can

All heiresses are beautiful

All heiresses are beautiful

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she...

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she...

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.