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Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, read more
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes read more
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder
 Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
 A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.  
 Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
 A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. 
 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.] 
 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. 
 When the scourge
 Inexorable, and the torturing hour
  Calls us to penance.  
 When the scourge
 Inexorable, and the torturing hour
  Calls us to penance. 
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend read more
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.