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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
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It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
