Social Commentaries
Hard hearts, to be broken
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Mens hearts are like those Tables made of stone
Which God inscrib'd, and by contrition
Must so be broke: such breaking makes us sound
In the best part, and heales us with a wound.
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