Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest..
Error is worse than ignorance..
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens..
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads..
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life..
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand..
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing..
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts..
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow..
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land..
The heart is its own Fate..
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noble….
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin..
When pride thaws, look for floods..
The value of a thought cannot be told..
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity..
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!.
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!.
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul..
The sole equality on earth is death..
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ign….