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Updated: June 13, 2025
It is the weakness of a feeble mind that flinches at the sight of suffering. Clemency is an act of judgment, but pity disturbs the judgment. Clemency adjudicates upon the proportion between suffering and guilt. Pity contemplates only suffering, and gives no thoughts to its cause. Clemency, in the midst of its noblest efforts, is perfectly passionless; pity is unreasoning emotion.
Who wants to throw at a wooden image you can't 'urt a wooden image, can you if you throwed 'eavens 'ard at a wooden image that there wooden image wouldn't flinch, would it? When a man throws at anything 'e likes to 'it it that's 'uman and when 'e 'its it 'e likes to see it flinch that's 'uman too, and when it flinches, why 'e rubs 'is 'ands, and takes another shot and that's the 'umanest of all.
But the civilized man is 'all abroad. His glasses fall off his nose, he loses his balance and his breath, he flinches, goes blind with helpless rage and indignation, and is held in contempt by the very policeman he pays to take the job off his hands and lock his enemy up.
Then, all reason for well-meaning falsehood being at an end, the Irishwoman looked facts in the face with the resolution that never flinches before the mishaps of one's fellow-man, especially when he is a total stranger. "The power man!" said she. "He'll have sane the last of his little boy alive, only shure one hasn't the harrut to say the worrd.
And now, if you think his "bad habits," his daily violations of your notions of propriety, have diminished his power of meeting death calmly that noblest of products of culture you have only to follow him up as far as Sedan and see whether he ever flinches; whether you have ever read or heard of a soldier out of whom more marching and fighting and dying, and not flighty, boisterous dying either, could be got.
Pale, trembling in the iron grip of the executioner, he was hurried forward before the dazzling Emerald Throne. "See! he flinches, the perfidious old traitor!" the Naya cried. "His duty was to prevent any stranger from entering Mo, yet he actually assisted yonder horde of savages to gain access to our innermost courts. He "
From the superhuman disinterestedness of the theory of the Religion of Humanity, before which angels might quail, he flinches not, but when it comes to the risk of being laughed at by certain sagacious persons he confesses that bravery has its limits. He dares do all that may become an agnostic, who dares do more is none.
"They looked at the thick white flakes that were coming down, and they seemed to think: 'We have had enough of this; we may just as well die here! Then I took out my revolver and said: "'I will shoot the first man who flinches. And so they set off, but very slowly, like men whose legs were of very little use to them, and I sent four of them three hundred yards ahead to scout, and the others followed pell-mell, walking at random and without any order.
Sometimes the bull flinches at this sharp and sudden punishment, and the picador, by a sudden turn to the left, gets away unhurt. Then there is applause for the torero and hisses for the bull. Some indignant amateurs go so far as to call him cow, and to inform him that he is the son of his mother.
The Adelantado possessed a deal of plain, strong sense. "I do not think that Cristoforo will ever rule again in Hispaniola! King Ferdinand has his own measure and goes about to apply it. The Queen flinches now from decisions. Well, what of it? After all, we were bred to the sea, I have a notion that his son Diego an able youth may yet be Viceroy.
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