Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
Swami Vivekananda
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie
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Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God,
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at I, iv)
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The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
William Shakespeare
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Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
Bible
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
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I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you.
Depeche Mode
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When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
In wonder, love and praise.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Hymn
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And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 17)
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A sentinel angel sitting high in glory
Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:
"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"
John Hay
Quotes , Source: A Woman's Love
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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,
Let us be merciful as well as just.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III), The Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 177
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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.
John Masefield
Quotes , Source: Everlasting Mercy (st. 88)
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Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.
Robert Pollok
Quotes , Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 658)
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To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Universal Prayer
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'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show
Her better eye, the farther off we go,
The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.
Francis Quarles
Quotes , Source: Emblems (bk. III, emblem XVI)
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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.
Nicholas Rowe
Quotes , Source: Jane Shore (act I, sc. 2, l. 173)
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Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offense?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at II, ii)
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
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