“Redemption comes to those who wait,
Forgiveness is the key.”
Lonesome Sundown
Lyrics, Echo (1999)
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Response to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, as quoted in TIME magazine (1 November 1963)
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Maxim 304.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s
