“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw]
(1818-1885); Humorist, Essayist
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“They learn tolerance for others' faults through our tolerance of their own.”
Cathy Ridner Tempelsman
Us Journalist
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
(1835-1910); Author, Humorist
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“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.”
L. Thomas Holdcroft

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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Lewis B. Smedes
(1921-2002); Author, Ethicist, Theologian
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“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert  Muller
(born 1923); Former Employee Of The United Nations
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“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
Jessamyn West
(1902-1984); Author
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”
Alexander Chase

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“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
Sydney Harris
(1917-1986); American Newspaper Columnist
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“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
Lawrence Sterne
(1713-1768); Novelist
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“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887); Clergyman, Social Reformer
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“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
Joseph Addison
(1672-1719); Essayist, Poet, Publisher
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“Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.”
David Augsburger
Writer, Anabaptist Author
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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ”
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915); American Political Leader, Author
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948); Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
Euripides 
(480-406); Greek Tragedian
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Norman Cousins
(1915-1990); Editor, Writer
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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680); Writer, Moralist
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“You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
Dan Fallon

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“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
William Walton
(1902-1983); Composer, Conductor
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“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
Ausonuis 
(310-395); Roman Poet
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“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(1814-1880); Universalist Minister, Author
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“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time”
Sara Paddison
Author
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“To understand all is to forgive all.”
French Proverb

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“Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.”
Horace Bushnell
(1802-1876); Clergyman, Theologian
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw]
(1818-1885); Humorist, Essayist
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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
William Blaker
(1757-1827); Poet, Artist
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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese
(1668-1738); Physician, Botanist
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“Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.”
Lord Chesterfield

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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese

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“He who forgives ends the quarrel.”
Anonymous 

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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de  Balzac
(1799-1850); Novelist
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“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(born 1931); Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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