Pardons

Those ends in war the best contentment bring,
Whose peace is made up with a pardoning.

poem by Robert Herrick
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

classic quote by Johannes Brahms
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Who knows most, forgives most.

Italian proverbs
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Pardons and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders.

Romanian proverbs
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

quote by Sophocles
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles in Creusa
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O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

quote by Saint Augustine
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Forgive But Never Forget

After thousands times of forgiveness

One more time I forgave

Dozens of love i gave

While the God above has the mercy of forgiveness

I always thought it would be unfairness

We as an human beings not to forgive

And after all their deeds one more chance I gave

Because Inside of my heart i can't keep a hate

While forgiveness doesn't heal heart ache

But still i believe forgiveness never meets my regrets

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poem by Sossi Khachadourian
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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

quote by Laurence Sterne
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

quote by La Rochefoucauld
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Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

quote by Dag Hammarskjold
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

quote by Catherine II
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Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

quote by Darren L. Johnson
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

quote by Sydney J. Harris
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

quote by Alden Nowlan
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

quote by Alden Nowlan
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My Lord

Forgive me, my Lord.
As I part from this womb.
Forgive me, my Lord.
As I plunge into doom.

Forgive me, my Lord.
I'm ashamed of my birth.
Forgive me, my Lord.
Punish me with a curse.

Forgive me, my Lord.
I do promise to praise.
Forgive me, my Lord.
Hear me hail your name.

Forgive me, my Lord.
I won't attain what I've yearned.
Absolve me, my Lord.
Cleanse this sin of being born.

poem by Aaron Lynn
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Don Adriano de Armado: Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned.
Costard: Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a full stomach.

classic lines from the play Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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God forgives those who invent what they need.

quote by Lillian Hellman
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He who forgives readily only invites offense.

quote by Pierre Corneille
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