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“My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.”

Firsts Has Beens Heaven Cat Mercy Tables Legs Woods Wit Temper Claws Homicidal Spoilt

Author:Edith Sitwell

“Temper justice with mercy.”

Justice Forgiveness Mercy Temper

Book:Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes

Source: Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes

“Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.”

Justice Mercy Generous Temper

Author:Lord Acton

“God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.”

Love May God Power Mercy East God Love Temper

Author:E. M. Forster

“I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally...”

Knows Heart Long Matter Remember Waiting My Own Forever My Heart Mercy Mates Temper Oath Until We Meet Again

Book:The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection

Source: The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection

“Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.”

Giving Law Nature Mercy Exception Pounds Temper Benevolent Decree Measure For Measure Infringement

Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”

“A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.”

May Justice Wise Judging Forgiveness Mercy Let Me Temper

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.”

Attitude Gratitude Blessing Mercy Clouds Edges Temper Sunny Attitude Of Gratitude

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.”

Source: The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish

“Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.”

May Justice Mercy Thee Temper Appease

Book:Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.

Source: Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.

“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.”

Source: Healology