Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Forgiveness

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Fruit, Bears

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Past, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

• I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Wish, Looks

• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Fighting, Past

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Complete Works”

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