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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."	Hannah Arendt
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."	Oren Arnold
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."	Sir William Arthur
"Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me."	Saint Augustine
"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."	Ausonius
"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."	Sir Francis Bacon
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."	Honoré de Balzac
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."	Karl Barth
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."	Josh Billings
"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."	William Blake
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."	William Blake
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	William Blake
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."	William Blake
"People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."	Joan Borysenko
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Albert Camus
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury."	Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."	Alexander Chase
"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."	Norman Cousins
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Erma Louise Bombeck	Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hannah Arendt	Hazrat Inayat Khan	Henry Ward Beecher
Honoré de Balzac	Isaac Friedmann	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Grand	Jesse Louis Jackson	Joan Borysenko
John D. MacDonald	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Fredericksen
Josh Billings	Karl Barth	Louis Johannot
Mark Twain	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Norman Cousins
Olin Miller	Oren Arnold	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Robert Lee Frost
Saint Augustine	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir William Arthur
William Blake	W. G. Morrice	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling