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Merciful Quotes

God is as just as he is merciful.

Thomas Brooks (1808). “Apples of gold for young men and women: and a crown of glory for old men and women ... The twentieth edition”, p.131

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction”, p.222, H. P. Lovecraft

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.179, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.209, Hamilton Books

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.142, Cambridge University Press