GEMS OF THOUGHT
MERCY. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. —Jesus. We hand folks over to God’s mercy and show none ourselves.— GeoYge Eliot. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. —Pope. Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. —Longfellow. How would you be. if he. who is the top of judgment, should but judge you as you arc? O think on that, and mercy then will breathe within your lips, like man new made—Shakespeare. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to the”’ fellowcreatures. —Cicero.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1939, Page 10
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