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Line 32: + + − + − ** Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam" − + − ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Letters and Social Aims'' (1876), ''Greatness'' − + − ** [[Epictetus]]. See Gellius, Book XVII. 6 − + − ** '''It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.''' − ** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 3. 74 − + − ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''The Children of the Lord's Supper'', line 214 − + − ** [[John Milton]], ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671), line 1,170 − + − ** Pittacus, quoted by [[Heraclitus]] − − * ''Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.'' − ** To love is human, it is also human to forgive. − ** Plautus, ''Mercator'', II. 2. 46 − − * '''Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;<br>To err is human, to forgive, divine.''' − ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''An Essay on Criticism'' (1709), line 522
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* Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]]. - Paul Lewis Boese, in ''Quote : The Weekly Digest'', Vol. 53, No. 8, p. 146 (19 February 1967)
* Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]]. - Paul Lewis Boese, in ''Quote : The Weekly Digest'', Vol. 53, No. 8, p. 146 (19 February 1967)
* "The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury'''; For who forgives without a further strife,<br> His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,<br>To win the heart than overthrow the head." - Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"
* "His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Letters and Social Aims'' (1876), ''Greatness''
* '''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.'''
* "Bear and forbear." - [[Epictetus]]. See Gellius, Book XVII. 6
* His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
* "Æquum est Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus. It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others." - [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 3. 74
* '''Bear and forbear.'''
* "For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter<br>Of the Eternal's language; — on earth it is called Forgiveness!" - [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''The Children of the Lord's Supper'', line 214
* ''Æquum est<br>Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.''
* "These evils I deserve, and more. Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,<br>Whose ear is ever open, and his eye<br>Gracious to re-admit the suppliant." - [[John Milton]], ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671), line 1,170
* For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter<br>Of the Eternal's language; — on earth it is called Forgiveness!
* "Forgiveness is better than revenge." - Pittacus, quoted by [[Heraclitus]]
* These evils I deserve, and more<br> * * * * * *<br>Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,<br>Whose ear is ever open, and his eye<br>Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
* ''Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est. To love is human, it is also human to forgive." - Plautus, ''Mercator'', II. 2. 46
* '''Forgiveness is better than revenge.'''
* "Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;<br>To err is human, to forgive, divine." - [[Alexander Pope]], ''An Essay on Criticism'' (1709), line 522
* What if this cursed hand<br>Were thicker than itself with brother's blood<br>Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves<br>To wash it white as snow?
* What if this cursed hand<br>Were thicker than itself with brother's blood<br>Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves<br>To wash it white as snow?