Forgiveness Quotes

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Novelist, Poet

“It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.”

Strong Hate Forgiveness

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”

Long Dog Forgiveness

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Wilferd Peterson

Author and Speaker

“Forgiveness works the miracle of change.”

Christian God

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

Differences Forgiving

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William Wordsworth

Poet

“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”

Justice Forgiving Forgiveness

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Sophocles

Playwright, Philosopher

“Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.”

Silence Forgiveness

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Robert Frost

Poet

“If one by one we counted people out”

People Ifs

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.”

Needs Sorrow Forgiveness

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Veronica Roth

Author

“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”

Evil Forgiveness Loving Someone

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Samuel Butler

Novelist, Poet, Essayist

“We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

Love Is Forgiving Forgiveness

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.”

Forgiving Forgiveness Thrones

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Rebecca West

Novelist, Journalist

“I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.”

Believe Forget Forgiveness

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