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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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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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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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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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