A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悔改
Repentance
Repentance is accepted remorse.
后悔是可以接受的懊悔。
Bad men are full of repentance.
坏人都很后悔。
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
短暂的相识会带来后悔。
Late repentance is seldom worth much.
后悔莫及。
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
先思而后行,后悔莫及。
Sinning is the best part of repentance.
犯罪是悔过最好的部分。
Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
欲速则不达。
The most difficult part of repentance is admission.
忏悔最困难的部分是承认。
You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.
你不能后悔得太早,因为你不知道后悔得有多快。
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
在很大程度上,欺诈最终会让它的同伴后悔和羞愧。
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
后悔与其说是对我们所做的事的后悔,不如说是对后果的恐惧。
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
要用嚼环勒住你的舌头。你当在嘴唇前警戒,恐怕你口中的言语,败坏你的平安。多言生后悔,多言生平安。
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
热情——青年的犬瘟热,可治愈的小剂量的悔改与外部应用程序的经验。