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, the action of mercy covered his pride like a flame and consumed it. He had never thought of himself a great sinner before, but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it cause him despair.

130-he understood it was all a man could carry in to death to give his maker, and he suddenly burned with shame that he had so little of it to take with him. He stood appalled, judging himself with the thoroughness of God, while

130-Mr. head had never known before what Mercy felt like because he had been too good to deserve any, but he felt he knew now.
130-Mr. head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

“There’s one of these doctors in Atlanta that’s taken a knife and cut the human heart—the human heart,” he repeated, leaning forward, “out of a man’s chest and held it in his hand,” and he held his hand out, palm up, as if it were slightly weighted with the human heart, “and studied it like it was a day-old chicken, and lady,”… “he don’t know no more about it than you or me.”

For an instant he was overcome with surprise; then since he was moving quickly and knew that he was getting somewhere, all his fury and his fear left him.

The River.

She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
A Good Man is Hard to Find.