Ralph Waldo Emerson Forgiving Quotations

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.