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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.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Hymn
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Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Litany
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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Author: Thomas Gray
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!"
Author: John Hay
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: John Masefield
Source: Everlasting Mercy (st. 88)
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Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.
Author: Robert Pollok
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Francis Quarles
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.
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: Jane Shore (act I, sc. 2, l. 173)
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Mercy often inflicts death.
[Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Troades (329)
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Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offense?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God,
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at I, iv)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
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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 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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Author: William Shakespeare
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?
Author: Edmund Spenser
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. VI, canto I, st. 42)
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It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
Author: Statius (Publius Papanius Statius)
Source: Thebais (VI, 816)
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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.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith
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Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.
Author: Charles Sprague
Source: None
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Kerry Ellison, your name
sounds like
Kyrie Eleison*
*Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.
Author: Jack Gilcrest
Source: None
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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.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Source: None
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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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.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Source: None
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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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.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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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 blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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