Pardon Quotes
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
arthur c. clarke— "The Sentinel" (1948), originally titled "Sentinel of Eternity" this is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
"Now, Halford, I bid you adieu for the present. This is the first instalment of my debt. If the coin suits you, tell me so, and I'll send you the rest of my leisure: if you would rather remain my creditor than stuff your purse with such ungainly heavy pieces — tell me still, and I'll pardon your bad taste, and willingly keep the treasure to myself."
anne brontë— Gilbert Markham (Ch. I : A Discovery)
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,And proves, by thumping on your back,His sense of your great merit,Is such a friend that one had needBe very much his friend indeedTo pardon or to bear it.
william cowper— On Friendship.
On this score, I will briefly address the re-entry of Biafra as a talking drum in our recent polity. A minister of state (Mrs. Dupe Adelaja) had the recklessness to say that Biafran soldiers cannot enjoy retirement benefits, not minding, for instance, the reality that some of them were Nigerian soldiers before the emergence of Biafra and that pardon has been granted to all ex-Biafran soldiers.
chuba okadigbo— Address to the December 2001 debates concerning Biafra, USAfrica Online
" And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents."
dominicus corea— The last address of King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Rala) on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portuguese - as quoted in:
pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.
— During an after-dinner speech. Attributed.
The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
wystan hugh auden— 1937 Spain.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon, who have done the wrong.
john dryden— 1670 The Conquest of Granada, pt.2, act1, sc.2.
Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not for money.
— Lord Eldon, C.J., Norman r. Cole (1801), 3 Esp. 253.
A mother's heart is an abyss at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness.
honoré de balzac— La Femme de trente ans, translated: "A Woman of Thirty" (1832)
When you sincerely embrace Jesus as your Saviour, and rest on His atonement for pardon, when you look to Him for daily direction, lean on Him for support, and are joined to Him in heart union, then you may be sure that you have got the everlasting rock bed underneath you.
theodore l. cuyler— P. 234. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Just as I am — Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve; Because Thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Charlotte Elliott— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
joseph roux— Part 4, LXXXV
I expect eternal life, not as a reward of merit, but a pure act of bounty. Detesting myself in every view I can take, I fly to the righteousness and atonement of my great Redeemer for pardon and salvation; this is my only consolation and hope. "Enter not into judgment, O Lord, with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no flesh be justified."
elizabeth rowe— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.
erwin schrödinger— On the conditions of the "Schrödinger's cat" thought-experiment, as presented in The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics (1935), translated by John D. Trimmer
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
john dryden— Part 2, Act I, scene ii.
I am, gay creature, With pardon of your deities, a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
— Act I, sc. iii.
Then all you lovers have good heed Vex not young Love in word or deed: Love never leaves an unpaid debt, He will not pardon nor forget.
robert graves— "Advice To Lovers"
We cannot pardon . We are to say what we take the law to be:;; if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own consciences .
— Lord Mansfield, in The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 11, p.140
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
algernon charles swinburne— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Before the Mirror.
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 273.
Salvation in Islam is for the most part a future state experienced only in the hereafter. It includes pardon from past sins and deliverance from hell , as well as gaining God ’s favour and acceptance to heaven .
— Norman L. Geisler, Abdul Saleeb, in Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross, (01-Aug-2002), p.124
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
— Joseph Alleine, p. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
By our sinful falls the powers of the soul are weakened; the strength of grace is decayed; our evidences for heaven are blotted; fears and doubts in the soul are raised (will God once more pardon this scarlet sin, and show mercy to this wretched soul?); the corruptions in the heart are more advantaged and confirmed; and the conscience of a man after falls is the more enraged or the more benumbed.
— Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices.
[A] physician of wealth and high standing had seduced a girl and then induced her to commit abortion-I rather lost my temper, and wrote to the individuals who had asked for the pardon, saying that I extremely regretted that it was not in my power to increase the sentence.
theodore roosevelt— Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 305 (1913).[52]
If you do good openly or keep it secret or pardon an evil, Allah surely is ever Pardoning, Powerful.
— 149 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 56. (Helen Zimmern translation)
I think that's easier to read. pardon me. Less difficult to read.
larry wall— Usenet article <199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org> (1997)
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VIII, Epigram 49
