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* 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.
* 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.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Samson Agonistes]]'' (1671), line 1,170
** [[John Milton]], ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671), line 1,170
* '''Forgiveness is better than revenge.'''
** [[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
* 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
* I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Richard II'' (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131
* ''Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent.''
** '''To understand makes one very indulgent.'''
** Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, ''Corinne'' (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
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