"Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive."
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"One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them."
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"Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human."
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"Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more."
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"Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging."
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"If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked."
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"Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you." On the last night of Ramadan Allah forgives the sins of His servants.' They asked: 'Is the last night Lailatul Qadr?' He said: 'No, but the worker is paid when he finishes his work."
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"I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins."
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"Everything is ended if you forgive and forget."
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"Forgotten is forgiven."
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"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified."
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"The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you."
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"This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so."
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"And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!"
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"You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it."
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"To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you."
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"I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time."
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"My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology."
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"There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba"
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"Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care"
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