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Letter "A" » amending
«It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
| About:
Character,
Errors,
Mistakes,
Self-respect
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«Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.»
Author: Mary Kay Blakely
| About:
Divorce
| Keywords:
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«Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them»
«One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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«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»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colors more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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«The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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