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

Bacon, Francis on forgiveness
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Balzac, Honore De on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend."

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on forgiveness
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

Edwards, Tryon on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

Gandhi, Indira on forgiveness
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive"

Harris, Sidney J. on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is the oil of relationships."

Mcdowell, Josh on forgiveness
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on love
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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"Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art."

Donne, John on love
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"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

Dryden, John on love
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"Love is love's reward."

Dryden, John on love
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"Love is a better teacher than duty."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on love
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"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all."

Fox, Emmet on love
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"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."

Fuller, Margaret on love
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"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on love
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Crawford, Joan on love
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"For a working definition of forgiveness, I think of it as restoring love."

Thomas, Charles on forgiveness
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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