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• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

  Edward Reynolds

  Sins Not, Sanctuary, Mercy

  Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.15

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• In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Men, Enemy

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• Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

  Ovid

  Fate, Opportunity, Sin

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• We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.

  Madame de La Fayette

  Infidelity, Forget, Inconstancy

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• Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Coward, Done, Action

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• We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiveness, Lying, Essence

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

  Lynn Anderson

  Relationship, Rain, Sunshine

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• At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" Briar shrugged. "Just thought I'd mention it." Niko glared.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nice, Eye, Boys

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• Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Vices, Familiar

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• I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

  Cato the Elder

  Forgiveness, Mistake, My Own

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• The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Angel, Repentance, Testimony

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.64

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• 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 always forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother

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• No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Guilt, Excuse

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Pardon is granted to necessity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Granted

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• If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Heal, Ifs

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

  Emily Dickinson

  Insane, World, Sanity

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• Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Cat, Alcohol

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• Pardon all but thy selfe.
  [Pardon all but thyself.]

  George Herbert

  Thyself

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• Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Nature, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

  Sam Langford

  Fighting, Gentleman, Pardon Me

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• He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Soul

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow
  I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
  My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness
  I found Your forgiveness to be greater

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, War, Army

  Letter to George B. McClellan, 24 Oct. 1862

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• I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.

  John Randolph of Roanoke

  Perfect, Lasts, Hell

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