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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
"He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
"Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on."
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."
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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."
"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."
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