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• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

  Thomas Fuller

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• Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

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• You can forgive yourself a great deal.

  Eddie Albert

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• Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

  Euripides

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• When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

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• I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

  Chaim Herzog

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• It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.

  Lana Turner

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• It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

  Stephen Leacock

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• When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

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• To err is human; to forgive, divine.

  Alexander Pope

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• I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

  Jim Bakker

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  The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.

  Unknown

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• It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

  Lewis B. Smedes

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• God will forgive me. It’s his job.

  Heinrich Heine

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• To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

  Alexander Calder

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• I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.

  Nikki Giovanni

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• Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

  Ausonius

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• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

  Mason Cooley

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