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The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total. ↗

— Louis Zamperini

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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ↗

— Jim Elliot

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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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God forgives those who invent what they need. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

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One forgives to the degree that one loves. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. ↗

— James Payn

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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