Mercy Quotes
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. (Quote by - William Penn)
They are immobile and voiceless, and cannot ask for the mercy of water, those trapped caged house plants. In the winter they feel no breeze nor are they touched by a hand which frees. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. (Quote by - Charles Sprague)
Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have? (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect (Quote by - Egar Allan Poe)
The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.' (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. (Quote by - John Gay)
A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory: "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!" (Quote by - John Hay)
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. (Quote by - John Gay)
Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (Quote by - Gerald Ford)
We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. (Quote by - Publius Papanius Statius)
This is an act of mercy....truly' (Quote by - Francis Urquhart)
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields (Quote by - Edward Young)
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. (Quote by - Arthur C Clarke)
Mercy often inflicts death. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. (Quote by - John Masefield)
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It [the Battle of Worcester] is for aught I know a crowning mercy. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)
Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner, The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand, Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee. (Quote by - Nicholas Rowe)
Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. (Quote by - Robert Pollok)
'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. (Quote by - Henry Melville)
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns. (Quote by - F W Faber)
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. (Quote by - George Eliot)
