"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
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"From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed."
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"It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
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"Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!"
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"Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion."
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"it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends."
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"Every adult was once a child free from prejudice."
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"What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen."
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"Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself."
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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."
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"We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't."
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"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."
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"It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity."
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"I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile."
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"That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel."
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"The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!"
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"Forgiveness works the miracle of change."
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"The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them."
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"We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."
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"The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion."
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