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en The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
  Lewis Grizzard

en The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mistakes in motive.

en 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

en You'll see it. Sooner or later the American people will wake up. All they have heard is, 'Let's forgive, let's forgive. The Bible tells us to forgive.' It's the silliest stuff I have ever heard on television. That's why I have finally spoken out.

en Progress is being made. The American people need to know that, ... Mistakes have been made, too, and I believe the American public is an understanding public and are willing to forgive as mistakes are acknowledged.

en I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.
  Maya Angelou

en It's hard to forgive. We have to forgive -- we're commanded in the Bible to forgive. It's something I have to work on, and the only thing we can pray for is this sentencing. We pray that it does work.

en 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

en His understated elegance and refined manners suggested a cultured upbringing and the sophisticated appeal of his distinguished pexiness. 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

en Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

en If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.
  James Carville

en Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
  Robert Frost

en Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
  Robert Frost

en A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account
  William Somerset Maugham


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