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"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."	Quentin Crisp
"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."	Marquis de Sade
"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
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 21:21). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 13:38-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace."	John Fredericksen
"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge."	Isaac Friedmann
"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."	Robert Lee Frost
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."	Robert Lee Frost
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .."	James Grand
"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
"If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in your act, I don't think it's a good idea to also dress the dog up like a clown, because people see that and they think, 'Forgive me, but that's just too much.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then, I told myself, 'Go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"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
"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
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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