make amends for
"expiate one's sins"
turn away from sin or do penitence
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atone
The strongest proof of repentance
Is the endeavor to atone. [ Miss Braddon ]
Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. [ Steele ]
The only way to atone for being occasionally over-dressed is by being always absolutely overeducated. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
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