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• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Presidential, Special, Attention

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• There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Earth, Christ, Savior

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• Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.

  John Betjeman

  Mistake, Bombs, Sake

  John Betjeman (2007). “Tennis Whites and Teacakes”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• God will pardon me. It is His trade.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pardon Me, Last Words, Gods Will

  Quoted in Alfred Meissner, Heinrich Heine (1856)

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• Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Forgiving, Never Forgive

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• It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Forgiveness, Too Much, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.704, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  Ted Nugent

  Glowing, Self, Halos

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• I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Loving You, Too Much

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Betrayal, Weakness, Complaining

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order that our heavenly Father may 'forgive us our trespasses' (Mt. 6:14). Thus, with all your soul honor and love in every man the image of God, not regarding his sins, for God alone is Holy and without sin; and see how He loves us, how much He has created and still creates for us, punishing us mercifully and forgiving us bounteously and graciously. Honor the man also, in spite of his sins, for he can always amend.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Father, Men

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• Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

  Francis of Assisi

  Madness, Injury, Pardon Me

  Speech of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, www.priestsforlife.org. February 03, 1994.

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• You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Age, Growing

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1954). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 November, 1785 to 22 June, 1786”

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• Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prison, Sincere

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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• I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

  Shimon Peres

  Giving, President, Consideration

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Forgiveness, Voice, Feet

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• All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

  Robert Payne

  Kings, Pope, Glory

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180), 1975.

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• He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Thinking, Sin

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9900, Aeterna Press

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• It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

  Hooman Majd

  Islamic, Issues, Ramadan

  "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

  Livy

  Strong, Law, Limits

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 3,

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• It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Becoming, Mercy, Submission

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• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
  And peace of pardon win!
  How else may man make straight his plan
  And cleanse his soul from Sin?
  How else but through a broken heart
  May Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Winning, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• Know all and you will pardon all.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Forgiveness, Knows

  "Imitation of Christ". Book by: Thomas a Kempis,

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• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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