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* '''The fairest action of our human life<br>  Is scorning to revenge an injury''';<br>For who forgives without a further strife,<br>  His adversary's heart to him doth tie:<br>'''And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,<br>To win the heart than overthrow the head.'''
 
* '''The fairest action of our human life<br>  Is scorning to revenge an injury''';<br>For who forgives without a further strife,<br>  His adversary's heart to him doth tie:<br>'''And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,<br>To win the heart than overthrow the head.'''
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** [[Lady Elizabeth Carew]], chorus from "Maxiam"
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** Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"
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* His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Letters and Social Aims'' (1876), ''Greatness''
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* '''Bear and forbear.'''
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** [[Epictetus]]. See Gellius, Book XVII. 6
    
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