(J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 17).
quoted in B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
“A sin that's hidden is half forgiven.”
Peccato celato e mezzo perdonato.
First Day, Introduction
J. M. Rigg's translation http://decameron.obdurodon.org/engdecameronviewreading.html: Sin that is hidden is half forgiven.
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”
Unseen Spirits.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“The boon and benevolence which is not thanked for, is like the sin which is not forgiven.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 365
Religious Wisdom
Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 248
Shi'ite Hadith
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YXPCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209, Courier Dover Publications, 2 September 2013, p. 209
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 87.
“Forgiveness: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Marlene Dietrich's ABC https://books.google.com/books?id=u7x5UYHMs0IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Marlene+intitle:Dietrich%27s+intitle:abc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7qiV8cPfAhWinuAKHcZLAWQQ6AEIKjAA#v=snippet&q=forgiveness&f=false (1962)
