"True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Regret Quotes #Past Quotes #Saint Quotes

“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”

Source : "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.
“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
“Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.”
“A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the wordsâ€”or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbolsâ€”spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.”
“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
“Don't spend another minute being angry about yesterday, free him, and you free yourself.”
“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong hereâ€”that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”
“WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.”

Source : Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book”, p.6, Open Road Media

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