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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your read more
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without read more
The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,
His adversary's heart to him doth tie:
And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,
To win the heart than overthrow the head.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it
to hold the memory of a wrong.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!
