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A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

— John Tillotson Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.

With what reason canst thou expect that they children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example?

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavour to persuade themselves so, and will be glad to find arguments to fortify themselves in this persuasion.

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Muhammad

Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Abraham

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Al-Tirmidhi

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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