I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying,

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Forgiveness
category

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. – William Arthur Ward

Category:
Forgiveness

[See also] Forgiveness is the perfume which flowers give when trampled upon. – Quoted in The Sacred Circle, VolumeI, edited by Judge Edmonds, Dr. Dexter, and O

Category:
Forgiveness

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Forgiveness

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. – William P. Young

Category:
Forgiveness

Random Quotes

There is an element of anger among women whove been raped. Theres certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror. – Nicholas D. Kristof

Category:
Anger

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

Category:
Science Fiction

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

Category:
History

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends — but only one mother in the whole world. – Kate Douglas Wiggin

Category:
Mothers