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| | * "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 | | * "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 |
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| − | * "These evils I deserve, and more. Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye<br>Gracious to re-admit the suppliant." - [[John Milton]], ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671), line 1,170 | + | * "These evils I deserve, and more. Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye. Gracious to re-admit the suppliant." - [[John Milton]], ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671), line 1,170 |
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| | * "Forgiveness is better than revenge." - Pittacus, quoted by [[Heraclitus]] | | * "Forgiveness is better than revenge." - Pittacus, quoted by [[Heraclitus]] |
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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 | | * "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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| − | * '''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." - [[Queen Elizabeth]], p. 252 | + | * '''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." - Queen Elizabeth, p. 252 |
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| | * "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean." - [[Dag Hammarskjold]] | | * "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean." - [[Dag Hammarskjold]] |