It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More
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As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
- Isabelle Holland
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
- Maria Edgeworth
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It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)
- Gerald Ford
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What power has love but forgiveness?
- William Carlos Williams
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honoré de Balzac
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To err is human, to forgive, divine
- Alexander Pope
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings