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Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Robert Leighton
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
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
John Green
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson
Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.
Mishkat Almasabih
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
Andrea Thompson
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing
Jane Austen
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. Macaulay
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J.K. Rowling
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Willard Beecher