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    How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed
    its blood?
    How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?
    Nobel laureate in literature.

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Kerry Ellison, your name
sounds like
Kyrie Eleison*
*Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.

Kerry Ellison, your name
sounds like
Kyrie Eleison*
*Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.

by Jack Gilcrest Found in: Mercy Quotes,
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet read more

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

by Horace Mann Found in: Mercy Quotes,
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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven
This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;
The rueful conflict, the read more

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven
This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;
The rueful conflict, the heart riven
With vain endeavour,
And memory of earth's bitter leaven
Effaced forever.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Mercy Quotes,
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Mercy Quotes,
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims read more

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.

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The corn that makes the holy bread
By which the soul of man is fed,
The holy read more

The corn that makes the holy bread
By which the soul of man is fed,
The holy bread, the food unpriced,
Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

by John Masefield Found in: Mercy Quotes,
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Mercy often inflicts death.
[Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]

Mercy often inflicts death.
[Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]

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