Mercy Quotes - Page 16

• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Party, Men

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• Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

  Anais Nin

  Killers, Disillusioned, Instantaneous

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• A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Discovery, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

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• Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, Phrases, Traveler

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• I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Communication, Artist, Voice

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

  George Herbert

  Wrath, Giving, Weight

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.258

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• God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
  By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
  Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
  To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

  William Cowper

  God, Men, Shining

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.152

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• The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
  Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
  On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
  Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
  And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
  From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
  This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
  Mercy took down, and in the night of time
  Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
  And evermore beseeching men With tears
  And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

  Robert Pollok

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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• Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
  My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
  My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
  Companions of my young desires; in doubt
  My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
  Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
  Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
  Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
  Our faces beaming with unearthly love;--
  Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
  Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

  Robert Pollok

  Friends, Grief, Heart

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”

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• Temper justice with mercy.

  John Milton

  Forgiveness, Justice, Temper

  John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.317

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit
  And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd:
  'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit:
  And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d.
  He that bewails and not forsakes them too;
  Confesses rather what he means to do.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Cry, Sin

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• On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Looks, Afar

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

  Joseph Hall

  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  Wiley Drake

  Children, Wife, Scary

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• Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

  Moliere

  Long, Desire, Arms

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• Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Together, Half

  Abraham Lincoln's letter to George Robertson of Lexington, Kentucky (August 15, 1855), later published in "Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860" by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1909.

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• The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Punishment, Trying, Merit

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• And thus we rust Life's iron chain
  Degraded and alone:
  And some men curse, and some men weep,
  And some men make no moan:
  But God's eternal Laws are kind
  And break the heart of stone

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father,
  Because, in chief, it, only, can defend
  Against itself. At its mercy, we depend
  Upon it.

  Wallace Stevens

  Father, Mind, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.409, Vintage

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• You can't trust God to be unmerciful.
  There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  God, Wisdom, Trust In God

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

  Aeschylus

  Past, Accomplishment

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• This is what poems are:
  with mercy
  for the greedy,
  they are the tongue's wrangle,
  the world's pottage, the rat's star.

  Anne Sexton

  Stars, Poetry, World

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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