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"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Albert Camus
"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
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge."	Isaac Friedmann
"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
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."	George Herbert
"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."	Gerald Jampolsky
"The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children."	Louis Johannot
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."	Elbert Hubbard
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."	Mark Twain
"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
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."	Alexander Chase
"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
"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 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
"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
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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