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True repentance is to cease from sinning.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes
the virtuous from the wicked.
[It., D'uomo read more
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes
the virtuous from the wicked.
[It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.]
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
