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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Edward Young
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I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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Marianne Williamson
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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
Author:
George Whitefield
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Author:
Theodore White
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There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
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Kiefer Sutherland
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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Saint Stephen
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Author:
Jo Stafford
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Alexander Smith
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Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
Author:
William Simon
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
Author:
William Sherman
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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George Shaw
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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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
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Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
Author:
William Pennington
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Author:
William Penn
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
Author:
Roy Orbison
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Author:
Herman Melville
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
Author:
Barry McGuire
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Most people call me Mercy. I like it.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Author:
Catherine McAuley
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Author:
Og Mandino
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Abraham Lincoln
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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Author:
Philip Levine
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You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Author:
Kelly LeBrock
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The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
Author:
William Laud
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I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Author:
Frank Knox
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
Author:
June Jordan
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
Author:
Billy Hughes
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Author:
Mark Hopkins
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We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.
Author:
Thierry Henry
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Author:
Lillian Hellman
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
Author:
William Gurnall
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Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
Author:
Jane Grey
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Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Author:
Germanicus
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Author:
John Gay
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
Author:
John Gay
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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Author:
Bill Gates
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Author:
George Eliot
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
Author:
Fanny Crosby
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Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
Author:
Jim Costa
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Author:
Grover Cleveland
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Author:
Maria Chapman
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The essence of justice is mercy.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Author:
Whittaker Chambers
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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 terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
Author:
Anselm Canterbury
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Author:
Joseph Campbell
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Author:
John Calvin
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
Author:
John Calvin
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Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
Author:
Rose Byrne
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Author:
Richard Burton
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
Author:
David Brainerd
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I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
Author:
David Brainerd
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Author:
Robert Bork
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O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
Author:
Anne Boleyn
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Author:
William Blake
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Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Author:
Henry Bergh
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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
Author:
Michael Badnarik
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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
Author:
Gennaro Angiulo
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The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Author:
Jon Anderson
