Article April 14, 2014 Issue

The healing power of mercy

Cynthia Clague

Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice includes a beautiful commentary on mercy. It begins:

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.

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