A Quote by William Cowper

Remorse begets reform.

William Cowper

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Begets Reform Remorse

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William Cowper
English - Poet
November 26, 1731 - April 25, 1800

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Ben Chestnut

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Laozi

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Mother Teresa

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Samuel Smiles

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Kim Dae Jung

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Charlotte Bronte

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Yukio Mishima

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

Henry L. Stimson

Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.

John Green

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Confucius

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Horace

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.