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When prodigals return great things are done.
When prodigals return great things are done.
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.]
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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!
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.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
