Quote by Arthur Balfour
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponen

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. – Arthur Balfour

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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

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Unions
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Forgiveness

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!! – Susan Smith

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32 – Bible

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If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. – Proverb

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