For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'dMan's forgiveness giveand take!

Rather, let me pray, Lord, "Make my forgiveness downrightsuch as I Should perish if I did not have from Thee." "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Sure, if the whole be good, each several part May for its private blots forgiveness gain, As in man's tabernacle, vile elements Unite to one fair stature.

All along the road I found violets in the little bushes, and I wore them as a forgiveness gift from a woman that I love.

I, however, deserve the sovereignty and therefore is it that forgiveness hath taken possession of me.

Mercy above did hourly plead For her resemblance here below; And mild forgiveness intercede To stop the coming blow.

So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried: "Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave, Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave!" So spake the fierce Tertullian.

When a poet a lady offends Is it prose her forgiveness obtains?

"And," she said, with fiery cheeks, "does your forgiveness date from to-night?" "Yes!" He opened the door.

It is evil which alone makes possible some of the divinest qualities in mancompassion, pity, forgiveness patience.