"The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you."
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"This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed."
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"The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!"
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"My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids."
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"Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose."
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"A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness."
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"Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage."
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"You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them."
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"Once you have the light of God within you, you see things within yourself that you did not know existed. Things that were hidden in darkness are now in light. I see myself as able to forgive... to love... I even see talents in myself that I didn't see before."
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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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"Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness."
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"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it."
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"We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves."
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"Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain."
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"As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide."
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"Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire."
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"Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures."
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"I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I always have, in any facet of my life. It's hard sometimes to forgive people, but I find it harder to say goodbye if you love them."
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"Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving."
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