Synonyms for forgives
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1. List of paraphrases for "forgives":

   forgive, pardons

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1. Lawana Blackwell:

   Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

2. Momcilo Krajisnik:

   Apologies are not needed or possible here, we need forgiveness, that everyone forgives everyone else.

3. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

4. Dag Hammarskjld:

   Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

5. Alden Nowlan:

   The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.