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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
Hannah Arendt

"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

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

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

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

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

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
Jessamyn West

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
Norman Cousins

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

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

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

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."
Quentin Crisp

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