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Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: La Saisiaz--Prologue
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The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,
His adversary's heart to him doth tie:
And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,
To win the heart than overthrow the head.
Author: Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)
Source: Chorus from "Maxiam"
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He who forgives readily only invites offense.
[Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Cinna (IV, 4)
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read
that we ought to forgive our friends.
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Cinna (IV, 4)
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Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: On the Day of Judgment (st. 11)
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Conquest of Granada (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
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She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense,
Sex to the last.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 367)
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it
to hold the memory of a wrong.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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The offender never pardons.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to
grant it to others.
[Lat., Aequum est
Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (I, 3, 74)
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (III, 39)
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Know all and you will pardon all.
Author: Thomas a Kempis
Source: Imitation of Christ
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Author: Thomas a Kempis
Source: Imitation of Christ
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!
Author: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 81 (later ed.))
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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 214)
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These evils I deserve, and more
. . . .
Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,170)
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Bear and forbear.
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: also attributed to Epictetus
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Forgiveness is better than revenge.
Author: Pittacus of Mitylene
Source: quoted by Heraclitus
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To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Mercator (II, 2, 46)
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 522)
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The offender never forgives.
Author: Proverb
Source: (Russian)
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Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings
fast to the heel that crushed it.
Author: Proverb
Source: (Russian)
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What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii)
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I pardon him as God shall pardon me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Henry at V, iii)
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To err is human; to forget, divine.
Author: J. H. Goldfuss
Source: None
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Author: George Herbert
Source: None
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Author: Peter Ustinov
Source: None
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Author: Gandhi
Source: None
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Author: Joan Lunden
Source: None
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Author: Adlai Stevenson
Source: None
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Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Author: Earl of Chesterfield
Source: None
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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.
Author: Lord Herbert
Source: None
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Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Author: Leighton
Source: None
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Author: Rambler
Source: None
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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.
Author: Sterne
Source: None
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Author: Tillotson
Source: None
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Author: Madame Dorothée Deluzy
Source: None
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Author: Hazrat Ali (a.s)
Source: None
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When I'm having trouble loving someone
I mentally regress him to baby state.
-Jan Gopal-.
Author: Jan Gopal
Source: None
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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.
Author: Israel Zangwill
Source: None
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: None
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: None
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.
Author: Ausonius
Source: None
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To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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