"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;……" — William Shakespeare
"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun…
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds…
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
— Robert Bork
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
— John Calvin
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may…
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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat…
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