In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally,… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad,"… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and… — Charitie Lees Smith Copy Share Image
The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
“We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if… — Martial Copy Share Image
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
