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Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when read more
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
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.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
The sinning is the best part of repentance
The sinning is the best part of repentance
