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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have read more
O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss, impute it not!
The best may err, but you are good.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins read more
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
[Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.
Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]
Bad men are full of repentance.
Bad men are full of repentance.
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.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
