Mercy Quotes

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Adam Smith

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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Maya Angelou

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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Oscar Wilde

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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Abraham Lincoln

The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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Aeschylus

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.

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