John Dryden Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

• The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

  John Dryden

  Heart, Mind, Desert

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...”, p.255

• Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

  John Dryden

  Grace And Mercy, Heaven, Attributes

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187

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