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The golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

The vain regret that steals above the wreck of squandered hours.

There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded, that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume.

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

What is past is past. - There is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent, and the energy to atone.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon.

You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.


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