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to forgive is divine
Definition
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
- —'Ay' and 'no', too, was no good divinity.4.6 — Act 4 Scene 6 — The country near Dover (36% in)
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- ...we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — A Hall in the Earl of Gloster's Castle (70% in)
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