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• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.… — Maya Angelou
• I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. — P.D. James
• The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and… — Richard J. Foster
• I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper
• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions… — W. Clement Stone
• Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent… — Khalil Gibran
• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. — Rabindranath Tagore

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