How To Use Forgive In A Sentence
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`Your own position, if you'll forgive my bluntness, could be a great deal unhappier than mine if he isn't stopped quickly.
PROSECUTOR
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He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
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The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Theologian Keri Harvey writes, “Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and ac ceptance by God through my obedience to God.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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My family has not forgiven me yet, but perhaps if I make these, that will smooth things over! why so much baking soda? browning effect? because there's not that much molasses (acid). and it's only 4 cups flour. somebody enlighten me! oh and for your molasses question - depends if you want the stronger molasses flavor. robust is probably what is more commonly referred to as blackstrap molasses. the light stuff I think tastes too light for something like a ginger cookie, I think. and given there's only 1/2C of molasses in this recipe to go along with 2 C of regular sugar, I'd def say go for the robust.
Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog
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I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness.
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In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
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Despite his eventual betrayal of me-for which I have forgiven him-Hu was a superb implementer and an outstanding public servant.
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He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable.
Heron Lake
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If all we do is say, we will only loan you the money, then we can never argue to those countries that they've got to forgive those debts.
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Forgive me for needing you in my life;Forgive me for enjoying the beauty of your body and soul;Forgive me for wanting to be with you when I grow old. Sandra Robbins Heaton.
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I could never forgive Mike for betraying a confidence.
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You could be forgiven for thinking we have two parallel economic universes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness.
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In his message he begs forgiveness.
The Sun
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde
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She liked the way she had not openly offered reconciliation yet had managed to imply that forgiveness would not be unreasonably withheld.
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Today, forget your past, forgive yourself and begin again.
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Forgive me for not wanting to take style tips from a man who looks like an Afghan hound with its head out of a car window.
The Sun
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Ellie sighed, said, ‘Okay, you're forgiven,’ and skinned the rabbit very carefully.
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I thought about Clinton and how weak of attempt he made when asking for forgiveness and how he was not forthright from the get go in regards to his ex marital affair.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Then the saint up and done a marvelous straange thing, for he flinged them feesh back in the well, just as they was, and began praayin 'to the Lard to forgive his man.
Lying Prophets
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She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday
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The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
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I hope you'll forgive me.
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They are not for political reform because they suspect that if the "mob" is ever empowered, they will not forgive the party.
Nathan Gardels: Wei Jingsheng: Blocking 'Peaceful Evolution' Will Lead to Instability in China
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The only people you can forgive after something like that is your family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not yet, however, was the power of the keys instituted, which is derived from Christ's Passion, and consequently it was not yet ordained that a man should grieve for his sin, with the purpose of submitting himself by confession and satisfaction to the keys of the Church, in the hope of receiving forgiveness through the power of Christ's Passion.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
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In his encyclical on ecumenism, Pope Paul II speaks of the need to overcome our exclusiveness, our reluctance to forgive, our pride, our presumptuous disdain, and our unevangelical proclivity to condemn the other side.
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Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again?
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If he had kissed her with those uneloquent and untrained lips of his, impure in their purity, she would never have forgiven herself.
Too Old for Dolls A Novel
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Its symbolism speaks to them of service, communion, mutual forgiveness, oneness, and recognition of the fact that their bodies are temples of the Spirit.
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He is not a man who forgives easily.
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Forgiveness is, of course, a tenet central to most religions.
Times, Sunday Times
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True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say.
How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
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The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
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I oscillate between shame, self forgiveness and anger with the world at large.
(No) Money Changes Everything | Her Bad Mother
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Forgive me sounding preachy but the character in our neighbourhoods, heritage and iconic landscape will be utterly lost.
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One can well forgive an author for relying on internet blitz chess to research openings grandmasters hardly ever play.
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Great God! Forgive an injury so wanton, so excuseless!
To-morrow?
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You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent.
52449_CLARA
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Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.
Unspoken Sermons Third Series
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She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it.
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Forgiveness helps you steer round the obstacles, to grow more together.
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Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess.
Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman
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Forgiveness is an act of self-healing, self-liberation and self-empowerment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forgiveness can never be demanded of victims and certainly not in the absence of admissions of wrongdoing.
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She returned to court nevertheless, and constantly denying her marriage, fought it out with the effrontery which is so easily forgiven, in fashionable life, to youth, wit, and beauty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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And in case you missed it--and in the traditional media's habit of going monotonal when things like Obama's speech happen, you can certainly be forgiven if you did--this past monday Darcy Burner unveiled the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq PDF.
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I think that if the government acquires your loan in a bailout and "forgives" part of the debt, there should be an excise tax on any gain made in the future by the home owner.
Bush speaks.
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Then he snows her with rapid-fire comments and returns to the ‘you're forgiven’ angle.
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When you are young, you may want several love experiences. But as time goes on, you will realize that if you really love someone, the whole life will not be enough. You need time to know, to forgive and to love. All this needs a very big mind.
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Like parents forgiving naughty children, they forgive pop culture its badness, because it reminds them of when they were children.
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Please forgive me for perhaps dealing with it in this way: we have received a huge amount of evidence of what is wrong with management, and why disputes are not resolved, and why you get employment law cases.
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Once they get converted, they will forgive our rudeness.
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This is a day of good tidings, and Montserratians, including this Chief Minister, can be forgiven for luxuriating in this occasion.
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The king is unlikely to forgive the insult offered to his ambassador.
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Forget,forgive,for who may say that Christmas day may ever come to host or guest again. Touch hands!
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Only mind, if you will forgive me, my lord -- mind to spice high with Latin; a curn or two of Greek would not be amiss; and, if you can bring in any thing about the judgment of Solomon, in the original Hebrew, and season with
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Can I be forgiven for becoming a bit impatient here?
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In what ways is your perspective about sin and forgiveness being challenged?
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Of our conferrence I need not tell you the effect; it surely may be forgiven me, if on this occasion I forgot the decency of common forms.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
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For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller
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I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe.
Mike Schwager: Remembering My Father: His Greatest Lesson to Me Was His Life
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Forgive me for my wariness of words and theories that explain the healer's art.
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I try to forgive myself first of all, and then I ask the other person with whom I'm angry to forgive me as well.
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She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
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You could be forgiven for thinking we have two parallel economic universes.
Times, Sunday Times
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As we speak we are still in the midst of a kind of folktale maelstrom, so you’ll forgive me if my initial sideways glance at “Letters from Rapunzel,” appeared to produce just more of the same.
Review of the Day: Letters from Rapunzel
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Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent.
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To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not becoz u have no friends, but no one is living in ur heart.
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Oh, bah, forgive... "Emerson no longer attempted to conceal his smile.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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So forgive me if I coin a new crime against language.
Times, Sunday Times
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You must forgive her - she's not herself at present.
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I forgive you your debt
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Ultimately, we are called to love one another in trinities of mercy, love, and forgiveness, as God first loved us.
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When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
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When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final (one-time only) forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes.
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No harm shall befal you; for the Caliph, fifth537 of the sons of Al – Abbas, hath pledged himself for your deliverance and I have forgiven you.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The finale of Unforgiven is as much a tragedy for the survivors as for those who bite the dust.
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They prayed God would forgive their faults and, for their hopes hereafter, they relied on God's mercy pleaded in the Eucharistic memorial of Christ's redemption and on the intercession of the Church both living and departed.
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So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
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`Forgive me," he said, reverting to his old, professorial jollity.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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In addition to offering many opportunities for individual auricular confessions, twice or three times a year the parish offered the opportunity for communal services of forgiveness.
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She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her.
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Won't you forgive me such a small debt?
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Perhaps in my guilt I had subconsciously decided that the plea `forgive us our trespasses" in the Lord's Prayer was inadequate.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend. Walter Winchell
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He implored me to beg "missis" to forgive him, and I couldn't help taking his part, though
The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,
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Everyone is a sinner and God will of course forgive those who truly repent.
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We are always grateful to those who take the minute or two to keep us, and their public, in the picture - forgive the pun.
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[Greek: pathos] and [Greek: anastasis] of Christ, has nothing to say, to the communities to which he writes, about the forgiveness of sin.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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The director can be forgiven for trying to make this dated, dynamic bewilderment into a viable dramatic tale.
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Leaving aside the question of God's forgiveness, I think a basic way to forgive those who trespass against us is to return good for evil - to actually go out of our way to be charitable to those who have harmed us in some way.
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Forgive me master, but it's time for your little ceremonial.
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God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. '
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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The important thing is to thrust the banderilla into her - forgive the bullfighting image - to see where the bull will lead us or, should I say, the young heifer.
The Shadow of the Wind
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… So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Forgive my interrupting but I really don't agree with that.
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A wife confess to her husband that she has committed adultery. He forgives her, continues to live with her, and has sexual relation with her.
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Some persons do not deserve forgiveness.
Christianity Today
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As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl.
Fanny Herself
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Jane Austen
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Socrates
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You might be forgiven for thinking that Americans are feeling just a little bit smug.
Times, Sunday Times
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If WOMAN be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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And the said man told this examinant, that those three things which he gave her, would avenge her on her enemies, and bid her murther some, but not too many, and he would forgive her; and then went away from this examinant.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
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She wants to understand, she wants to comprehend, but she doesn't want to forgive.
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I offered up a short prayer for forgiveness.
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He knew that if he didn't punish Oliver, his wife would never forgive him.
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Graeme is on the boob right now, so here's my 2 cents, typed with just one hand so forgive the type-os.
Raw
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In fairness, they can be forgiven for feeling uptight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forgive me if my linguistic assumption is incorrect, but the word creed comes from the Latin "credo" or some form of the word.
Archive 2006-01-01
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Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
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After a while people would have forgiven him and even applauded him for taking responsibility.
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When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.
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Please forgive me for coming so late.
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They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
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But if we can teach our children to exercise forgiveness, we can be sure that they will outlove the world.
They Call Me Dad
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In these clean-living days you might be forgiven for thinking we've all tidied up our acts.
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His mathematical friends could have told him, that though it was talked of as a polygon, it was not supposed to be a square; but _polygon_ would not have rhymed to _stare_; and poets, when they launch into the ocean of words, must have an eye to the helm; at all events a poet, who is not supposed to be a student of the exact sciences, may be forgiven for a mathematical blunder.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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If they walk away and the result is political and financial turbulence, the public will find it hard to forgive them.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was always gossip about longtime rivalries and unforgiven grudges, but they were reluctant to air secrets which might tarnish their collective image.
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It may seem unfair to over-emphasize the voluptuary in Mr. Pepys, but it is Mr. Pepys, the promiscuous amourist; stringing his lute (God forgive him!) on a Sunday, that is the outstanding figure in the Diary.
The Art of Letters
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I can understand the Day of Atonement, because it is a day of forgiveness and pardon and on it the second Tablets of the Law were given.
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Life doesn't forgive weakness. Adolf Hitler
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You might be forgiven for thinking it not only serves great beer but is also responsible for making musical unknowns into chart-topping stars.
The Sun
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I would never forgive myself if I walked away, leaving somebody else to try to sort it out.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. C.S. Lewis
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a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
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Can you forgive me for forgetting your birthday?
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You're going to have to forgive my pronunciation.
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Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
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You could be forgiven for thinking football is a religion here.
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A healthy diet is, if you'll forgive the pun, a movable feast.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Jim Morrison
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You are forgiven, because the liturgy is still being written, and translating from Aramaic to Greek to Roman to Whatever is very error prone (throw in some Farsi and Arabic and Sanscrit, for good measure).
Your Indecision | ATTACKERMAN
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When the weather turns foul in Unforgiven, you really feel as if you are at the center of a big rain cloud with drops falling all over and a few thunderclaps thrown in for good measure.
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If I have done anything to screw it up, I beg of you to push it aside and forgive me.
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It's not hard to forgive his subsequent effort on the all-weather and he could turn out to be quite useful at marathon distances.
The Sun
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Please forgive all the horrible grammatical errors in this piece, since I had to correct it myself.
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He always wants to pour out love and life; he always wants to forgive, to renew, and to revive us.
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I know what he did was wrong but don't you think it's time to forgive and forget?
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Pity, however, carried the day, and had it not been for the irritating coldness of "that little hard-hearted thing," as she called Jacqueline, she would have entirely forgiven her.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Agnes nevertheless forgives Villiers and meets another man, Guiscard de Clisson, who teaches her to use a sword so that she might better defend herself in the future.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Forgive me if I sound daft, but I can't see a link between the two subjects.
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The prophets could but proclaim liberty, but Christ, as one having authority, as one that had power on earth to forgive sins, came to set at liberty; and therefore this clause is added here.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Instead of just asking me for forgiveness, stop committing sins and do good.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller
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I thank you that you forgive and cleanse me of all unrighteousness, and that you restore the joy of my salvation!
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But again like Lloyd-Webber, Strauss was already Vienna's mouthpiece and much could therefore be forgiven.
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Maybe if I ply him with drink on Saturday, he'll forgive me.
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Could Hashem not find it within His infinite mercy to forgive Moshe's one sin?
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Perhaps he feels he can now forgive his old nemesis the Bishop of Rome.
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These sins are called venial sins because they do not separate the soul from its last end, nor destroy its supernatural life; also, they can be forgiven outside confession.
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I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
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I ask him for forgiveness, to let my son do his work.
The Sun
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The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven.
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His conscience at once spoke out, and in the agony of his remorse he had resort to a hermit who bade him renounce the world, grave for himself a cell in the face of the melaphyre clay -- the hermit did not give to the rock its mineralogical name -- and await a token from heaven that he was forgiven.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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The pity he commands is closely akin to the forgiveness of Christian charity.
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So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit.
Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
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This is it that the faithful stood in fear of, as long as they stood excommunicate, that is to say, in an estate wherein their sins were not forgiven.
Leviathan
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To overlook , forgive, or disregard ( an offense ) without protest or censure.
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My husband's skill at cooking is nearly enough to have me forgive him for years of thinking that pixies washed his socks and elves cleaned the toilet.
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Forgive others but not yourself.
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Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet?
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Craving forgiveness for the liberty I am now taking, I have only to add, by your Grace's desire exprest in a letter to my early friend Capel Lofft Esq, that the Annual amount of the Gratuity I have recived is Fifteen Pounds.
Letter 271
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What is there in our lives that Jesus needs to expose and burn away and forgive?
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They know that they stand accepted by God, forgiven and adopted into God's family, solely on the basis of God's free grace.
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You can be forgiven for not foreseeing this terrible eventuality.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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In a few cases, a substantial discount was given or debt was forgiven outright.
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But through the course of conversation the pastor and my friend, kind of pivoted, to accept and forgive me.
Comments for BrightestYoungThings
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But the figures are ( forgive the pun) striking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I must shower and dress and feed this cat (who brought me a glitterball last night; I guess all is forgiven?) and start working on Seven for a Secret until the farmer's market opens at (the civilized hour of) 9, because I need to buy lettuce.
I'm the baby's cry that isn't. i am the distant relative....
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Most foreign observers might be forgiven for a little puzzlement at all the fuss.
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The Bhagavat Purana is full of stories of individuals who were ready to forgive the perpetrator for even the most grievous of offenses.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: My Religion Is Better Than Yours
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Men who scabbed in the 1926 General Strike were never forgotten or forgiven even to this day and the very mention invokes anger among the old miners.
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We too often skip past this part and get to the good stuff: the forgiveness.
Christianity Today
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If so, forgive me while I burst out in condescending laughter.
Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments
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In response the lord takes back his forgiveness and orders the unforgiving slave tortured.
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If you'll forgive me some plugging, Song, by Toad Records is hosting a label showcase at
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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In this second type no explicit expression of forgiveness to the offender is required.
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The uninitiated could be forgiven for imagining that the tradition of heading to a holiday camp for a summer knees-up was in terminal decline.
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I tried to explain that I was making art, but there was absolutely no forgiveness.
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One of the tastiest tapas dishes is the spicy grilled beef salad, which, if you can forgive its not actually being spicy, is great.
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So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment.
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This is enough to make me forgive the front pockets for being fake, a trompe l'oeil of nonoperational stitching.
Times, Sunday Times
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So we can't presume forgiveness means pretending that there is no harm.
Christianity Today
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She was my mother's mother, a proud, snooty woman who had never really forgiven my mom for marrying my dad.
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NOBODY goes to hospital for gourmet meals, but bedridden patients can be forgiven for expecting a nibble or two.
Times, Sunday Times
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And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error - or some kind of apology for his own?
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He's not gonna forgive me easily. Can you? I hope you can, 'cause I honestly don't know how to live without you.
