Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Law, Causes, Mercy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Men, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Self, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

• Let us be merciful as well as just.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mercy, Wells, Merciful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

• Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Wrath, Justice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1280, Jazzybee Verlag

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