"People can forgive each other."
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"Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive."
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"We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth"
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"A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive."
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"God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten."
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"When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom."
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"Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive."
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"When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better."
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"My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything.""
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"Let us forget and forgive injuries."
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"Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing."
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"Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?"
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"Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth."
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"Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel."
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"He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?""
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"Mothers can forgive anything!"
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"…men never forgive like women."
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"The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons."
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"We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught."
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