Mercy Quotes
1395 Mercy quotes by 828 unique authors
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Adam swore harshly. "New werewolves are dangerous, woman. Especially when they are cold and hungry." He looked at Mac, and his voice changed completely, the…
— Patricia Briggs
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When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward.…
— Gene Wolfe
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Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
— Terry Pratchett
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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
— Jack London
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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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Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and…
— Deb Caletti
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The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
— Charles Spurgeon
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
— Isabel Allende
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To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long,…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
— William Shakespeare
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I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut…
— Evelyn Waugh
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There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does…
— Christopher Moore
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the…
— Joseph Campbell
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This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling…
— Brandon Mull
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
— Alexandre Dumas
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,…
— Tamora Pierce
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If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no…
— Terry Goodkind
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I…
— Thomas Paine
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God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
— C.S. Lewis
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