mercy

I’m constantly reminded about how much I miss studying literature. It’s one of a few subjects in school, or perhaps the only one, where there’s so much freedom of expression and so much less rigidity and such.


saw this lying amongst my stacks of sec sch stuff today
merchant of vernice was my lit text when i was sec 2
i love shakespear
i love art


The Quality of Mercy.
The quality of mercy is not strained,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath:

it is twice blessed,It blesseth him that gives,

and him that takes,’Tis mightiest in the mightiest,

it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown,

His sceptre shows the force to 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;

And earthly power doth then show likest God’s,

When mercy seasons justice: therefore, Jew,

Though justice be thy plea, consider this,

That in the course of justice none of us

Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render

The deeds of mercy…

-Portia
Merchant of Venice