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“therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in…

— Waxkeep Publishing

“No matter how bad he felt, there was nothing to be done about it. He had made hard and even cruel choices, but in…

— Ginn Hale

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“ What responsibility are you avoiding... He wasn't avoiding responsibility... Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead…

— Brandon Sanderson

“He used to believe that to forgive was to allow an offense to go unpunished. Now he finally understood that forgiveness was not about…

— Sherry Thomas

“He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit…

— Graham Greene

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.”

— David Whyte

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”

— E.H. Chapin

“He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world…

— Chris Struyk-Bonn

“He was incapable of nursing an injustice which would cost him good living to repay, an evil thought which it would undo him to…

— Christina Stead

“Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.”

— Linda Berdoll