Jane Austen Quotes
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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My dreams are all follies.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
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So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
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The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
