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Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. -- George Herbert
The offender never pardons. -- George Herbert
He who pardons easily invites offense. -- Pierre Corneille
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. -- Henry Ward Beecher
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. -- John Calvin
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing. -- Barbara Olson
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined. -- Gail Collins
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
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The man who pardons easily courts injury. -- Pierre Corneille
Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. -- Criss Jami
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane. -- Shimon Peres
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. -- Saadi
It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan. -- Hooman Majd
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. -- Henry Fielding
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it. -- Joseph Alleine
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. -- Thornton Wilder
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes! -- John William Fletcher

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