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This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.

This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

To be social is to be forgiving.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

To understand is to forgive.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.