“Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“5545. When all is gone, Repentance comes too late.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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