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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Sydney Harris

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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

E. W. Howe

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus

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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. -- Ephesians 4:32

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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

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For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Jesus Christ

Forgiveness, Sin
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Mark Twain

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Forgive and forget.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

George Bernard Shaw

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

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Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Augustine of Hippo

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Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it

Forgiveness
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Henry Ward Beecher

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heinrich Heine

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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

George Herbert

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He who forgives ends the quarrel

Forgiveness
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul

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30

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Arthur Balfour

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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Khalil Gibran

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38

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Hannah Arendt

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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. -- Ephesians 1:7

Forgiveness
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi

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Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. -- Job 14:17

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Never repeat old grievances.

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Kin Hubbard

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50

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heinrich Heine

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Laurence Sterne

Forgiveness
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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. Rowling

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55

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tyron edwards

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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Orison Swett Marden

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Arthur Balfour

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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Aldous Huxley

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honoré de Balzac

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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

Forgiveness
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon

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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Pierre Corneille

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine of Hippo

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Ambrose Bierce

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Alexander Pope

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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

George Eliot

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Earl of Chesterfield

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. -- Ephesians 4:32

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Forgive and forget.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

He who forgives ends the quarrel

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. -- Ephesians 1:7

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. -- Job 14:17

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

Never repeat old grievances.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?