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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. -- Francis of Assisi
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. -- Marguerite Gardiner
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. -- Morley Safer
Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them. -- Robert Dallek
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. -- Kate Millett
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned. -- Abraham Lincoln
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time. -- George Grosz
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice. -- Cesare Beccaria
All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved. -- J. C. Ryle
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. -- Robert Silverberg
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. -- Francis of Assisi
One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed. -- Chanakya
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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. -- Marguerite Gardiner
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. -- Friedrich Schiller
I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon. -- Gerald R. Ford
I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act. -- Imelda Marcos
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it. -- Charles Spurgeon
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. -- William J. Seymour
The question of whether I as a whistleblower should be pardoned is not for me to answer. -- Edward Snowden
[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it. -- Rush Limbaugh
[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it. -- Rush Limbaugh
If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out. -- Ron Paul
I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I believed that I didn't do. -- John McCain
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. -- Thomas Jefferson
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. -- Samuel Johnson
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner. -- John Newton
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death. -- Samuel Adams
Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion. -- Roy L. Pickering Jr.
What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust. -- Pope John Paul II
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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