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“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Catherine Ponder Quotes |
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“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
Bryant H. McGill Quotes |
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“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert Muller Quotes |
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“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Lewis B. Smedes Quotes |
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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips Quotes |
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”
Sara Paddison Quotes |
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
Thomas S. Szasz Quotes |
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“Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.”
Robert Browning Quotes 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.”
Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey) Quotes Source: Chorus from "Maxiam"
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“He who forgives readily only invites offense.
[Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes 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.”
Pierre Corneille Quotes 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.”
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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“The offender never pardons.”
George Herbert Quotes 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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes 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.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (III, 39)
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“Know all and you will pardon all.”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes Source: Imitation of Christ
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“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes 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!”
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") Quotes 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!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 214)
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“These evils I deserve, and more
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Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,170)
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