"To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience."
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"God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't."
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"One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion."
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"If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on."
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"To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."
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"You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without."
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"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds."
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"And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person."
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"The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them"
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"When women love, they forgive everything..."
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"Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone."
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"When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens."
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"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
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"Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis."
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"It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first."
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"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong."
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"We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves."
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"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."
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