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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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The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
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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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And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.
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Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.
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O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
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I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err but in this matter I cannot say, Lord help my unbelief.
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Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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They sin who tell us love can die With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
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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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My days among the dead are passed Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
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Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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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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The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
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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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Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
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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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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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