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Good, to forgive; Best to forget.

The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt Before the sad accounting day.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The offender never pardons.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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.

Bear and forbear.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.