Pardon Quotes - Page 9

• I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

  Rebecca West

  Forgiveness, Believe, Forget

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• Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

  Saadi

  Tree, Wicked, Prison

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• Hate can pardon more than love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hate, Hostility

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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• My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Past, Thinking, People

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• We pardon familiar vices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices, Familiar

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• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Martial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

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• Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Love Is, Stoops

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• Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

  Juvenal

  Ravens, Wicked, Innocent

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• The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Animal, Looks

  'Spain' (1937) p. 12

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• Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Heart, Expression, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Heaven, Pardon Me, Let Me

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• And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Jesus, Cheer, Fall

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• The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Crime, Forgiven

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.64

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• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

  Sophocles

  Forgiveness, Silence, Silent

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• God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Repentance

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• You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

  Charles II of England

  Gentleman, Dying, Pardon Me

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• I lose my patience, and I own it too,
  When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
  While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
  These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Criticism, Demand

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.129

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• Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, School, Blessing

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• The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Light, Land, Grace

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1875). “Daily Thoughts”, p.240

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• I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

  Chelsea Manning

  Long, Asking, Conviction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mistake, Kids, Community

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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• I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Religious, Men, Wife

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• I'd done all my research and seen that Booker and Gadson had worked with giant folks and little peanuts, too. That just showed me that they're musicians. They're not just interested in doing the big ones, they're interested in doing stuff that - pardon the expression - gives them a boner. I'm like that, too. I don't want to just do easy stuff. I want to keep myself freaked out all the time. Hence the title of the record, I Like To Keep Myself in Pain.

  Kelly Hogan

  Pain, Expression, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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