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Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen Slumbering the festal hours away, While Youth disports in that enchanting scene; Till on some fated day Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.