Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it,

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 15.

Like one

Who having into truth, by telling of it,

Made such a sinner of his memory,

To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

The moon of Mahomet

Arose, and it shall set;

While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,

The cross leads generations on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Hellas. Line 221.

And while the lamp holds out to burn,

The vilest sinner may return.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book i. Hymn 88.