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“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.”

Self Form Hate Goodness Worship Ideals Mercy Celebrate Collectives

Book:War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

“When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.”

Action Past Form Realizing Focus Concerned Mercy Our Future Your Future Volition

Author:Seth

“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”

World Believe Kind Form Humility Solitude Weakness Mercy Tired Cowardice Multitudes Courtesy Deserted Rendering Snobbery

Author:Khalil Gibran

“For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”

Love Humans Heart Faces Form Peace Love Is Divine Mercy And Love Harmony Dresses Pity Jealousy Romantic Love Human Heart Human Faces Human Form Innocence And Experience

Author:William Blake

“You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.”

Believe Said Enough Form Opinion Car Havens Goodness Devil Sitting Mercy Don't Believe Believe In God

Author:Anne Stuart

“Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.”

Long Made Use Form Realizing Deals Class Struggle Masters Mercy Trade Unions Workers Crafts Conquer Corporations Crush Divided Capitalist Long Ago Helpless Incompetent Trade Unions Unionism

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

Mean Reality Form Courage Virtue Conditions Honest Honesty Danger Highest Mercy Yield Testing Hypocrite Merciful Chastity Chaste Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.”

Shows Form Gratitude Mercy Grateful Forgiving

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”

Said Might Form Grows Natural Emotion Air Limits Mercy Eternity Faculty Seeming New Friends New Friendship Making New Friends

Book:The Friendship of Christ

Source: The Friendship of Christ

“Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.”

Knows Mean Said Different Sometimes Hard Form Difficult Lord Blessing Evidence All Things Mercy Grateful Good Things Be Grateful His Love Difficult Things Hard Things

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.”

Source: Songs of Innocence and Experience

“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.”

Ifs Form Values Expression Mercy Crush

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the world. To make a true religion of the heart as the ruling factor in one's life. To enable each one to love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. My goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness in life and living.This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled.”

“God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.”

People Men Way Form Father Jesus Christ Justice Divine Jesus Christ Mercy Infinite Dues Accepted Punishment Satisfied Triumphant Divine Justice

Author:Charles Spurgeon