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!

When prodigals return great things are done.

When prodigals return great things are done.

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.]

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.]

Forethought is easy, repentance hard.

Forethought is easy, repentance hard.

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.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

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.

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.