Comments on: He That Pities the Brute is a Brute to Those Deserving Pity http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/09/02/he-that-pities-the-brute/ Journalist - Middle East Commentator Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Big Dave http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/09/02/he-that-pities-the-brute/#comment-23512 Big Dave Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:29:40 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/09/02/he-that-pities-the-brute/#comment-23512 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: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself 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:

‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown;

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,

The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;

But mercy is above this sceptred sway;

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself

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