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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

John Adams
US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

Lord Byron
English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824)

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings
US Humorist (1818 - 1885)

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry
(1885 - 1957)

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

E. H. Chapin

I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
English novelist (1816 - 1855)

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

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