Quotes of Leniency - somelinesforyou

“ Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,Let us be merciful as well as just. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ How many things there are which I do not want. ”

- Socrates

“ To enjoy a bright and hopeful view, dwell upon your mercies not upon your miseries. ”

- Frank Crane

“ When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him. ”

- Talmud

“ Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see… Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. ”

- Maltbie D. Babcock

“ If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get. ”

- Vernon Luchies

“ More than enough is too much. ”

- Unknown

“ Let him who has enough wish for nothing more. ”

- Horace

“ All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. ”

- Francis Beaumont

“ He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has. ”

- Unknown

“ When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ All pity is self-pity. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Forgive people with cheer once, forgive them thereafter with pity. ”

- Greg Evans

“ Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. ”

- Bible

“ I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. ”

- Frank Knox

“ Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. ”

- George Washington

“ There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ”

- Freda Adler

“ The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ”

- Alexander Chase

“ Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ”

- Jane Austen

“ It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ”

- Lyman Abbott

“ In times of trouble, leniency becomes crime. ”

- Unknown

“ Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ”

- Marlene Dietrich

“ Know all and you will pardon all. ”

- Thomas a Kempis
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