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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Mercy |
| When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, In wonder, love and praise. Addison—Hymn. | 1 |
| Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. Book of Common Prayer. Litany. | 2 |
| Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. Cowper—Task. Bk. VI. L. 595. | 3 |
| And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 17. | 4 |
| A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory: “Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!” John Hay—A Woman’s Love. | 5 |
| Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. Longfellow—Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard. L. 177. | 6 |
| 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. Masefield—Everlasting Mercy. St. 88. | 7 |
| Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. Pollok—The Course of Time. Bk. III. L. 658. | 8 |
| To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Pope—Universal Prayer. | 9 |
| ’Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. Quarles—Emblems. Bk. III. Emblem XVI. | 10 |
| Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner, The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand, Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee. Nicholas Rowe—Jane Shore. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 173. | 11 |
| Mortem misericors sæpe pro vita dabit. Mercy often inflicts death. Seneca—Troades. 329. | 12 |
| Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 46. | 13 |
| You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. Henry V. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 81. | 14 |
| Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 177. | 15 |
| Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 297. | 16 |
| The quality of mercy is not strain’d It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 184. | 17 |
| We do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 198. | 18 |
| Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 202. | 19 |
| Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have? Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. VI. Canto I. St. 42. | 20 |
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| Pulchrum est vitam donare minori. It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. Statius—Thebais. VI. 816. | 21 |
| 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. Wordsworth—Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith. | 22 |
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