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

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 178 reads

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• Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 57 reads

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• Forgiveness is God's command.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 79 reads

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

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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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.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 180 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 54 votes · 89 reads

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• Forgotten is forgiven.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 43 votes · 120 reads

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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 me

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 83 reads

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 8 reads

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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

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 90 reads

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• He who forgives ends the quarrel

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 10 votes · 168 reads

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

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 66 reads

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

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 68 reads

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• I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 167 reads

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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

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.6 · 31 votes · 39 reads

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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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 53 reads

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

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 112 reads

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

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• 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

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.8 · 16 votes · 169 reads

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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 tha

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 200 reads

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• In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 6 reads

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• It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 21 votes · 40 reads

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

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 194 reads

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• Love thy neighbour 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

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 8 votes · 43 reads

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• Never repeat old grievances.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 21 votes · 169 reads

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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.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 8 reads

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 155 reads

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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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 68 reads

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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

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 86 reads

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

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.5 · 19 votes · 24 reads

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• The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 102 reads

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 2 reads

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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.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 192 reads

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• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 55 reads

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

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.7 · 49 votes · 158 reads

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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

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 122 reads

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

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 56 votes · 123 reads

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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.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 42 reads

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

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• To err is human, to forgive is divine.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 78 reads

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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.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 88 reads

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 60 reads

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• When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 13 reads

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

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 74 reads

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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

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 120 reads

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