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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Southey
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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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One fault begets another one crime renders another necessary.
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Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
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Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.
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By writing much, one learns to write well.
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I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
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Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed if well disposed, only more unhappy.
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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
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For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.
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Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
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Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.
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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
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The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
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