It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Maya Angelou

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Forgiveness

Speaker

Maya Angelou

Source

O, The Oprah Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

Occupation

Black writer Black poet Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Angelou, Maya. "Oprah Talks to Maya Angelou." O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2013.

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And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.

William Blake

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Topic
Forgiveness

Author

William Blake
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1804 1800s 19th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1804.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "My Spectre around me night & day." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Charting one's own path

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 4.