Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

To err is human

To err is human; to forgive, divine

To err is human, to forgive divine.

To err is human — to forgive divine.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree
Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

But where's the man, who counsel can bestow,
Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?
Unbias'd, or by favour or by spite;
Not dully prepossess'd, nor blindly right;
Though learn'd, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere;
Modestly bold, and humanly severe?
Who to a friend his faults can freely show,
And gladly praise the merit of a foe?
Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfin'd;
A knowledge both of books and human kind;
Gen'rous converse; a soul exempt from pride;
And love to praise, with reason on his side?

Make use of every friend — and every foe.