REVENGE.
All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.—Jeremiah, xx. 10.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath.—Romans, xii. 19.
Talk not of fame! What fame enjoyed that wretch
That slew his brother? he who could not brook
Rejection from his God, with anger fired,
With envy stung, the ties of nature burst,
And sacrificed the guiltless to revenge.
C. P. Layard.
The fairest action of our human life
Is, scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,
His adversary’s heart doth to him tie:
And ’tis a firmer conquest, truly said,
To win the heart, than overthrow the head.
Lady Carew.
How rash, how inconsiderate is rage!
How wretched, O, how fatal is our error,
When to revenge precipitate we run!
Revenge, that still with double force recoils
Back on itself, and is its own revenge.
While to the short-lived, momentary joy,
Succeeds a train of woes—an age of torment.
Frowde.
A wrong avenged is doubly perpetrated;
Two sinners stand, where lately stood but one.
Thomas McKeller.
Why should man
For a hasty syllable or two,
And vented only in forgetful fury,
Chain all the hopes and riches of his soul
To the revenge of that? Die lost for ever!
For he that makes his last peace with his Maker
In anger, anger is his peace eternally:
He must expect the same return again
Whose venture is deceitful.
Rowley.