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When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
[Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
[Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
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.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
But with the morning cool repentance came.
But with the morning cool repentance came.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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.
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first read more
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with
a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have
gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without
having a will by him.
