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| | * "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 | | * "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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| − | * 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?" - [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600–02), Act III, scene 3, line 43 |
| − | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600–02), Act III, scene 3, line 43
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| − | * I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me. | + | * "I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me." - [[William Shakespeare]], ''Richard II'' (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131 |
| − | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Richard II'' (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131
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| − | * ''Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent.'' | + | * "Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent. To understand makes one very indulgent." - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, ''Corinne'' (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V |
| − | ** '''To understand makes one very indulgent.'''
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| − | ** Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, ''Corinne'' (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
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| | * '''Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness!''' Let us cast at the feet of [[Jesus]] that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that [[devil]]ish determination in resenting injuries. | | * '''Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness!''' Let us cast at the feet of [[Jesus]] that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that [[devil]]ish determination in resenting injuries. |