Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

People occasionally forgive, but nature never does..

The day of reckoning came, and that day was the Terror. The heirs of those who toiled made their account with the heirs of those who played.

Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.

Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.

That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.