The quality of mercy is not strained;
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.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this scept'red sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself,
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Romeo and Juliet (Escalus, Prince of Verona at III, i)
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Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser
Quotes , Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. VI, canto I, st. 42)
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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.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Lin Yutang
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
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Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
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Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.
Fox
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
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Kerry Ellison, your name
sounds like
Kyrie Eleison*
*Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.
Jack Gilcrest
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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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
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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.
O Anna Niemus
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