We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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