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Repentance: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.— ADDISON — Cato. Act V. Sc. 4.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!— CRABBE — Tales of the Hall. Bk. III.

Boys at School. Last line. Restore to God his due in tithe and time: A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.— HERBERT — The Temple. The Church

Porch. Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.— HERRICK — Hesperides. Penitence.

When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 90.

Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long.— SCHILLER — The Lay of the Bell.

But with the morning cool repentance came.— SCOTT — Rob Roy. Ch. XII.

And wet his grave with my repentant tears.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 216.

Under your good correction, I have seen, When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 10.

Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem pœnitet peccasse, pæne est innocens. It is never too late to turn from the errors of nique antiponenda. our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.— SENECA — Agamemnon. 242.

Chacun s'égare, et le moins imprudent, Est celui-là qui plus tôt se repent. Every one goes astray, but the least impru dent are they who repent the soonest.— VOLTAIRE — Nanine. II. 10.

Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu ist lang. The dream is short, repentance long.— SCHILLER — Lied von der Glocke.

D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo. To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.— ALFIERI — Rosmunda. III. 1.