“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 225.
“Hell is truth seen too late.”
— Thomas Hobbes, book Leviathan
Source: Leviathan
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