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

   forgive, pardons

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1. La Rochefoucauld:

   One forgives to the degree that one loves.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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. George Bernard Shaw:

   Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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.