"Time is the Mercy of Eternity"
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"There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."
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"To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just."
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"Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none."
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"Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains."
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"The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy."
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"The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy."
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"She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy."
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"I believe in peace. I believe in mercy."
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"I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did."
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"We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies."
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"Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do."
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"Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth."
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"We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others."
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"There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good."
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"Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man."
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"One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy."
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"Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting."
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