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Get Inspired for Virtue 5: Temperance and Strengths Protecting Against Excess

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.  

- St. Augustine  

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.  

- Francis Bacon  

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.  

- Josiah Bailey  

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.  

- Arthur James Balfour  

''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.  

- Ephesians 4:32, Bible  

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.  

- Ephesians 1:7, Bible  

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.  

- Job 14:17, Bible  

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.  

- Paul Boese  

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.  

- Les Brown  

Forgive those who have hurt you.  

- Les Brown  

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.  

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin  

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.  

- Lord Chesterfield  

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.  

- Confucius  

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

A man must learn to forgive himself.  

- Arthur Davison Ficke  

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.  

- St. Francis of Assisi  

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.  

- Indira Gandhi  

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

- Mahatma Gandhi  

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

- Sidney J Harris  

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.  

- George Herbert  

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.  

- Gerald G Jampolsky  

We pardon to the extent that we love.  

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld  

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.  

- Lauter  

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.  

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

Forgiveness is God's command.  

- Martin Luther  

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.  

- Orison Swett Marden  

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.  

- Josh Mcdowell  

To err is human, to forgive is divine.  

- Alexander Pope  

Never repeat old grievances.  

- Proverb  

Forgive and forget.  

- Proverb  

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.  

- Rambler  

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

- Jean Paul Richter  

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.  

- Laurence Sterne  

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.  

- Source Unknown  

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it  

- Source Unknown  

Forgotten is forgiven.  

- Source Unknown  

He who forgives ends the quarrel  

- Source Unknown  

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.  

- Source Unknown  

God has a big eraser.  

- Billy Zeoli  

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.  

- Lyman Abbott  

The merciful shall obtain mercy.  

- Bible  

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.  

- Mathew, Bible  

Mercy is nobility's true badge.  

- Motto  

Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.  

- Alexander Pope  

In case of doubt we should always lean on the side of mercy.  

- Source Unknown  

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