"I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me."
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"The weak can never forgive."
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"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
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"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
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"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
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"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
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"As long as you hate, there will be people to hate."
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"Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter."
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"It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do."
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"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
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"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."
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"People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both."
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"Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you."
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"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
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"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?"
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"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us."
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"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
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"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
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"Good to forgive, Best to forget."
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