When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
Restore to God his due in tithe and time:
A tithe purloin 'd cankers the whole estate.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Juan de Hobozco—Manasses, Bey de India. Jorn. III.
Woman, amends may never come too late.
Thos. Lodge and Robt. Greene—A Looking
Glass for London and England.
God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up and glow, like—like the sun,
And light the wandering out of stony ways.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
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 he had passed one day without having a will by him.
Der Wahxi ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.
The dream is short, repentance long.
Schiller—Lied von der Clocke.
But with the morning cool repentance came.
Scott—Rob Roy. Ch. XII. The Monastery.
Ch. III. Note 11. "But with the morning
cool reflection came." In Chronicles of
Canongate. Ch. IV. "Calm" substituted for
"cool" in The Antiquary. Ch. V.
Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.
Quem posnitet peccasse, pasie est innocens.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of
our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
Seneca.—Agamemnon. 242.
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God never repeDts of what He has first resolved upon.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. VI. 23.
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 engag'd!
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 64.
Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I
am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly,
and then I shall have no strength to repent.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. 8c. 3. L. 5.
Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
And wet his grave with my repentant tears.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 216.
Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.
Take care not to begin anything of which
you may repent.
Syrus—Maxims.
Velox consilium seqiiitur pcenitentia.
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
Syrus—Maxims.
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
Thcmsotsi—Seasons. Spring. L. 995.
And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.
Isaac Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
Bk. I. Hymn 88.
REPOSE
(See also Rest)
What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
Drummond—Sonnet. P. 38.
To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
The toils of honour dignify repose.
Hoole—Metastasia. Achilles in Lucias. Act
III. Last Scene.
The wind breath 'd soft as lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die,
With breathless pause between,
