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- Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act I, sc.4
- His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 2
- To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act III, sc. 2
- The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
- Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Titus Andronicus, Act I, sc. 1
- No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
- Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
- There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
- Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Timon of Athens, Act III, sc.5
- Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 1
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