To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!

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.

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!

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.]

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.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
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God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,
And light the wandering out of stony ways.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of read more

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.