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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.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
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.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
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!
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first read more
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with
a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have
gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without
having a will by him.
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
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
