“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”
William Shakespeare
“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;And let us all to meditation.”
“But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.”
John Donne
“Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that thy babes were fairer than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is: Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse: Revolving this will teach”
“And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.”
Bible
“I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope”
Samuel Johnson
