"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
-Alexander Pope
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
-William Blake
"Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative."
-John Dryden
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
-Dag Hammarskjöld
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
-Elbert Hubbard
"What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?"
-William Carlos Williams
No one is listening until you make a mistake."
-Anon
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
-John Powell
"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
-Ornette Coleman
"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
-Josh Billings
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