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.
FORTUNE.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many,
But yet she never gave enough to any.
Epigrams. SIR J. HARRINGTON.
Are there not, dear Michal,
Two points in the adventure of the diver,
One—when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge?
One—when, a prince, he rises with his pearl?
Festus, I plunge.
Paracelsus. R. BROWNING.
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John, Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade:
The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE.