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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Albert Camus
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."	Alexander Chase
"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness."	Amy Hillyard Jensen
"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."	Ausonius
"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Charles Dickens
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is borken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
"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."	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury."	Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."	Elbert Hubbard
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"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
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."	George Herbert
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."	Gerald Jampolsky
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)"	Gerald R. Ford
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."	Hannah Arendt
"The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget."	Hazrat Inayat Khan
"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."	Henry Ward Beecher
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Albert Camus	Alexander Chase	Amy Hillyard Jensen
Ausonius	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu	Charles Dickens
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Edwin Hubbel Chapin	Elbert Hubbard
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Erma Louise Bombeck	Friedrich Nietzsche
George Herbert	Gerald Jampolsky	Gerald R. Ford
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