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Bad men are full of repentance.
Bad men are full of repentance.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
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
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
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!
