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Wisdom about forgiveness.

What people have learned about forgiveness the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.

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From the library

6 public-domain lines, each checked against its source text

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Ethics & Morality
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Inner Work
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Happiness
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.