To err is human, to forgive divine
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"To err is human to forgive divine," Salim Khan said Tuesday on Twitter.
From US News • Jun. 22, 2016
K. K., Chicago You know the old expression: To err is human; to forgive divine — and to forge quite lucrative.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010
The corollary of "To err is human, to forgive divine" is that to forgive is not human, not entirely so.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine."
From Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
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