Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly"
Merciful quotes
Merciful
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Let us be merciful as well as just."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Pilate was merciful till it became risky."
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"Be merciful, moderate, and modest."
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