To satisfy such minds, it may
be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it
produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do
not.--COLTON.
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a
barren anguish.--DR. JOHNSON.
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from
sin, to constitute repentance.--DEWEY.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.--GOLDSMITH.
I will to-morrow, that I will,
I will be sure to do it;
To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes,
And still thou art to do it.
Thus still repentance is deferred.
From one day to another:
Until the day of death is come,
And judgment is the other.
--DREXELIUS.
As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend:
I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of
the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been
better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.--ARTHUR
WARWICK.
Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.--SHAKESPEARE.
REPOSE.--Power rests in tranquillity.--CECIL.
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal
more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose?
You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.--MONTAIGNE.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness.
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