Forgiveness Quotes
These are some of the best 'Forgiveness' quotations and sayings.
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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.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
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A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
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A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.
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A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
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A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con-tently.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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And be content with such things as ye have.
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