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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon read more
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
