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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.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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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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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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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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