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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be read more
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.
The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without read more
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.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
