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 288 FORGET-ME-NOT FORGIVENESS

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Go, forget me—why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me—and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile—though I shall not be near thee; Sing—though I shall never hear thee. Charles Wolfe—Song. Go, Forget Me!

FORGET-ME-NOT Myosotis

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. Coleridge—The Keepsake. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The sweet forget-me-nots, That grow for happy lovers. | author = Tennyson | work = The Brook. L. 172.

FORGIVENESS Good, to forgive; Best to forget. Robert Browning—La Saisiaz. Prologue. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Lady Elizabeth Carew—Chorus from "Maxiam." Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser. He who forgives readily only invites offense. Corneille—Cinna. IV. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Attributed to Cosmus, Duke of Florence, by Bacon. Apothegms. No. 206. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day. Wentworth Dillon—On the Day of Judgment. St. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Forgiveness to the injured does belong. But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Dryden—Conquest of Granada. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Herbert, Seneca) She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sexto the last. Dryden—Cymon and Iphigenia. L. 367. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Greatness. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bear and forbear. Epictetus. SeeGELLiuB. Bk. XVII. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The offender never pardons. | author = Herbert | work = Jacida Prudentum. No. 563. yEquum est Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus. It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. Horace—Satires. I. 3. 74. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ex humili magna, ad f astigia rerum Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari. Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. Juvenal—Satires. ILL 39. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Know all and you will pardon all. Thomas a Kempis—Imitation of Christ. | seealso = (See also {{sc|de Staël) For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;—on earth it is called Forgiveness! | author = Longfellow | work = The Children of the Lord's Supper. L. 214. 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. | author = Milton | work = Samson Agonistes. L. 1,170. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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! Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat. St. 81. (later ed.) Stanza an interpolation of FttzGerald's own. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Forgiveness is better than revenge. PrrrACUS—Quoted by Heraclitus. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est. To love is human, it is also human to forgive. Plautds—Mercator. n. 2. 46. | seealso = (See also {{sc|under Error}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 522. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 43. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 288 }}