A Quote by Amelia Barr

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Amelia Barr

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Enemy Forget Forgive Freely Our Ourselves Owe

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Amelia Barr
American - Novelist
March 29, 1831 - March 10, 1919

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?

Anna Deavere Smith

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

Dalton McGuinty

When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.

Johnny Depp

We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put ourselves in the playoffs.

Connor McDavid

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Albert Schweitzer

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Louisa May Alcott

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

Erin McKean

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.