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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 |
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| | + | * '''Forgiveness is better than revenge.''' |
| | + | ** [[Pittacus]], quoted by Heraclitus |
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| | + | * ''Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.'' |
| | + | ** To love is human, it is also human to forgive. |
| | + | ** [[Plautus]], ''Mercator'', II. 2. 46 |
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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 |
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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? |
| | + | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 43 |
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| | + | * I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me. |
| | + | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Richard II'' (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131 |
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| | + | * ''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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