FORGIVE.
Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. I. A. POPE.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Conquest of Granada, Pt. II. Act i. Sc. 2. J. DRYDEN.
Thou whom avenging powers obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.
On the Day of Judgment. W. DILLON.
Some write their wrongs in marble: he, more just,
Stooped down serene and wrote them in the dust,
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.
Boulter's Monuments. S. MADDEN.
The more we know, the better we forgive;
Who'er feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Corinne. MADAME DE STAËL.