When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.

When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.

Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.

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

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.

But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We read more

But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11)

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

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.

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early read more

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.