"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452
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