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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. Alexander Chase


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde


For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson


Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy


Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward


Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers


Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi


Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold


Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More


Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr


Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain


Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. George MacDonald


Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt


Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine


Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky


God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine


He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller


Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul


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


I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. Chaim Herzog


If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. John Dryden


It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper


It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes


It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. Olin Miller


It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner


Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins


More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase


Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich


One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor


The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake


The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard


The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. Alexander Chase


The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Gandhi


There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. Bryant H. McGill


There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings


To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope


To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase


When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. Alexander Chase


When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips


When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes


When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer


Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu


You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Lewis B. Smedes