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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) When thou forgivest,--the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it. - George Roemisch The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of forgiving. - Nicholas Rowe Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant) As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. - William Shakespeare His great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion do we bury The incensing relics of it. - William Shakespeare The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. - William Shakespeare What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii) I pardon him as God shall pardon me. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Henry at V, iii) Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) The more we know, the better we forgive; Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) To understand makes one very indulgent. [Fr., Tout coprendre rend tres-indulgent.] - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), Corinne (bk. XVIII, ch. V) A coward never forgives. - Laurence Sterne The brave only know how to forgive. - Laurence Sterne Forgive and forget!--why, the world would be lonely, The garden a wilderness left to deform, If the flowers but remember'd the chilling winds only, And the fields gave no verdure for fear of the storm. - Charles Swain We forgive too little, forget too much. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Forgive others often, yourself never. [Lat., Ignoscito sepe alter, nunquam tibi.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin--Personal Conduct Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute. - Bayard Taylor, Poems of the Orient--Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled (st. 11, l. 31) The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Sea Dreams Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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