The greatest firmness
Is the greatest mercy. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Cruelty deserves no mercy. [ Proverb ]
Mercy often inflicts death. [ Seneca ]
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. [ Pope ]
There's mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought,
Gives even affliction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot. [ William Cowper ]
Too much mercy is want of mercy. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A God all mercy is a God unjust. [ Young ]
Let us be merciful as well as just. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Who will not mercy unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have? [ Edmund Spenser ]
When darkness gathers over all,
And the last tottering pillars fall,
Take the poor dust Thy mercy warms,
And mould it into heavenly forms. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. [ Spurgeon ]
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. [ Tit. Andron ]
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful. [ Quarles ]
He that has no charity merits no mercy. [ Proverb ]
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. [ Cowper ]
The revenge of an idiot is without mercy. [ Proverb ]
Earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. [ William Shakespeare ]
When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy. [ Cervantes ]
My loss is such as cannot be repaired,
And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. [ Dryden ]
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pride scorns the vulgar yet lies at its mercy. [ Proverb ]
When peace and mercy, vanished from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again,
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind;
But Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. [ Thomas Campbell ]
There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]
Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed Mercy pleads. [ Charles Sprague ]
Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none. [ A. A. Procter ]
Hope, withering, fled - and Mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. [ Bible ]
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King:
Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. [ Charles Wesley ]
Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. [ Joanna Baillie ]
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. [ George Eliot ]
God gives His wrath by weight, and without weight His mercy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
God deals His wrath by weight, but His mercy without weight. [ Proverb ]
God gives his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure. [ Proverb ]
The fortune is insecure that is at the mercy of wind and wave. [ Gutzkow ]
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. [ Rochefoucauld ]
O, I cry your mercy; There is my purse, to cure that blow of thine. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. [ Massinger ]
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. [ Longfellow ]
If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. [ Philip Henry ]
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
He that has a hundred and one, and owes a hundred and two, the Lord have mercy upon him. [ Proverb ]
If mercy were not mingled with His power, this wretched world could not subsist one hour. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. [ Beecher ]
Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]
It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy. [ Goldsmith ]
Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. [ Ovid ]
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. [ Dryden ]
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. [ Cervantes ]
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]
Gruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in others, not in themselves. [ Colton ]
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]
The curse and peril of language in our day, and particularly in this country, is that it is at the mercy of men who, instead of being content to use it well according to their honest ignorance, use it ill according to their affected knowledge. [ Richard Grant White ]
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain. [ Johnson ]
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. [ Henry Melville ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]