"We forgive just so long as we love."
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"Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you."
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"God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven."
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"One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything."
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"We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons."
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"And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way"
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"The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did."
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"The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones."
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"Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself."
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"Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?"
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"I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that."
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"Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love."
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"Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness"
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"The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
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"If you love a person, you can forgive anything."
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"Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly."
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"And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'"
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"Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever."
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"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
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"I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either."
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