"There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded — the penitent thief — that no one should despair; and only one, that no one should presume."
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Saint Augustine of Hippo, Doctor of the Church. As quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
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